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authorPierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>2018-12-14 23:06:06 +0100
committerPierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>2018-12-14 23:32:39 +0100
commitdc56dc025df0b7ea6915ad1061f8d189d641fe35 (patch)
treee84011c570df9ba83fef5431cff3b03c6a835674 /doc
parent1e0f2ae0283949ee2237ca0e6013b54acdc2b7a6 (diff)
doc: Discourage the use of texlive as input
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Discourage the use of texlive as input.
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@@ -477,6 +477,16 @@ often better to clone the repository. Don't use the @command{name} field in
the URL: it is not very useful and if the name changes, the URL will probably
be wrong.
+@item
+Try to minimize the weight of the inputs to make the transitive closure as
+small as possible (@pxref{Invoking guix size}). Use @command{native-inputs}
+and @command{inputs} appropriately. It's sometimes sufficient to use the
+@command{-minimal} version of a package as input, e.g. @command{bash-minimal}
+instead of @command{bash}. In particular, avoid adding @command{texlive} as a
+dependency: because of its extreme size, it's both heavy on the build farms
+and on the users who would like to build or hack the package from source. Use
+@command{texlive-tiny} or @command{texlive-union} instead.
+
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