native or not

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

I've been having a first look at guix data service.

And looking at the guix lint page, I saw the "should
probably be native input" warnings, and gave it a
try on sudo, naively thinking it would benefit
something (maybe a container or vm image size).

Is there a way to see any benefit from these changes
(without building a vm or container image each time) ?

Are those changes useful to do on their own ?

For example this:

diff --git {a,b}/gnu/packages/admin.scm
index 2f661f5e81..457dc1e3dc 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/admin.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/admin.scm
@@ -1268,9 +1268,10 @@ system administrator.")
        #:tests? #f))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("groff" ,groff)))
     (inputs
-     `(("groff" ,groff)
-       ("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)
+     `(("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)
        ("zlib" ,zlib)


-- 
Vincent Legoll