Re: Guix size reduction work group

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

zimoun <address@hidden> skribis:

>> The thing is, I think it’s something that requires constant care, every
>> time we add a package or modify an existing one.  It’s very easy to lose
>> benefits that had been previously obtained through hard work!
>
> I have never thought, neither tried but is it possible to find and/or
> build all the packages that 'inherit' from a specific one?

Nope (‘inherit’ is purely syntactic, it doesn’t “live on” at run time.)
What would it buy you, though?

Ludo’.