bug#55499: excessively large manifests due to propagation

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> A profile consisting only of four R packages (r-seurat, r-cistopic,
>> r-monocle3, and r-cicero-monocle3) results in a “manifest” file that
>> weighs 7.1MB.  At the MDC I repeatedly encountered manifest files that
>> are exceeding 24MB.
>
> Commit 93f601d97ca2d9b82c41afeb86879ee37eae39e6 provides a 12% size
> reduction on this example, and it’s backward-compatible and cheap.

Excellent!  This is a great first step.

> I’ll try and follow up with changes along the lines you describe.

Thank you!

-- 
Ricardo