"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
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> If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> such as openssl.
>
> Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference
> to GCC here? Would be great to remove it. :)
I’m not familiar with Perl but I think we should get rid of that
reference—that and also Coreutils, Gawk, Binutils, and more:
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/gnu/store/7sbnxbfwzxn4fwkpa10x07gb5hr5hh62-libatomic-ops-7.4.2 0.6 0.6 0.2%
/gnu/store/dyz3dsbxa3h4dzwaxv4ibjdl5hbj9w2f-zlib-1.2.8 0.4 0.4 0.1%
