Re: A plan for parameterized packages

[raingloom]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:46:58 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

> Hi Ludo,
> 
> nice feature!
> 
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:33:28 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > An important question: do we have examples of packages for which
> > we’d like to have parameters?
> 
> For the embedded/flash rom side:
> 
> * Enable/disable building the documentation.  I really don't need a
> 40 MiB manual stored onto a 16 MiB firmware flash chip.  If that's
> better done as an extra output, fair enough.
> ......

Alpine already achieves an incredibly tiny install size by splitting
packages into many outputs. We could and should do the same.
As far as I know, they do not have parameterized packages.