Re: LaTeX packaging policy

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nguyễn Gia Phong <mcsinyx@disroot.org> skribis:

> On 2023-01-04 at 08:11+01:00, Reza Housseini wrote:
>> What about size? Does [propagating all build inputs]
>> not bloat up profile sizes?
>
> I'm new to Guix, but aren't both build inputs
> and propagated build inputs required at run time?
> IIUC the only difference is that the propagated ones' env
> is, ehm, propagated all the way up instead of just
> to the direct dependee.

No, inputs are not necessarily available at run time.  An input is kept
at run time (as a “reference”) if and only if guix-daemon finds a
reference to it in the build product.

Ludo’.