Re: Packages grow, no longer fit on a 💾

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Hello all.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Over the course of a few years, the size of our packages has apparently
> kept growing.

Disregarding dependencies, most store items got slightly bigger.  This
is what I wrote at bug#58760 “Guix System iso too big for cdrom again”
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58760>:

> it was possible to burn the Guix System install image to a 700MB CD.
> But it fits no more. I compared using the du tool (comparison between
> good old Guix version e427593 and bad new Guix version 3734857f […]).
> The result is that most packages got slightly bigger and this broke
> the camel’s back.

Regards,
Florian