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Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls) |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:31:36 -0400 |
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Hello,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
[...]
>> It is great to have ‘font-abattis-cantarell’ built from source (since
>> commit 97766323bc6e2b4dcfba4d6b46749a4280bca709), but it’s costly.
>>
>> There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea
>> dependency is optional.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> I looked into this one since it was causing mate to not appear for
> i686-linux. I wasn't able to remove the java dependency for the font,
> generating the font explicitly imports cffsubr. Python-cffsubr needs
> python-afdko for the 'tx' command. I suppose we could re-bundle it but I
> haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.
>
> Or we could just make that font optional.
The later sounds easiest, but is it really problematic to have Java as a
transitive native input to GNOME? I mean, it already depends on Rust,
and OpenJDK builds orders of times faster than Rust.
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Thanks,
Maxim