Better built in support across the board at runtime code level for feature detection and use would transparently do this. Alas, C.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 3:53 PM Peter Polidoro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:12, Simon Tournier > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, the images generated by Guix cannot considered as minimal. > > :-) > > Usually I am grateful that Guix packages are "maximal". > > It would be wonderful, though, if some magical "--minimal" command > existed when creating a Guix container to make it the smallest > possible size, leaving out documentation and all extras that are > not strictly necessary. > > I assume that is impossible to calculate and a minimal version of > each package would have to be manually specified using only > minimal versions of all dependencies so this will never exist. > > Guix is already such a huge improvement over Dockerfiles, but such > an option would make it really phenomenal. > > Just wishful thinking. > >
