Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 09:50:43AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> FWIW, until recently Nixpkgs didn’t use multiple outputs much (info
> "(guix) Packages with Multiple Outputs").  Lately they merged a change
> to use them very aggressively.  So for instance, GNU libidn, which takes
> 800 KiB in total, has no less than 5 outputs:
> 
>   
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
> 
> I think this is going a bit too far.  :-)

I agree. The time spent by humans figuring out which output to use will
probably never be "earned back" by the bandwidth and disk savings in
that case.

> I think the approach should be to profile packages with ‘guix size’ and
> to act mostly on a case-by-case basis.

Case-by-case, as with most things!