Hello, ng0 skribis: > Well they are build from source, and the source is on github. > for cjk: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk > not cjk: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts > emoji: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji > and they seem to use noto-tools for building, but I haven't looked > into the build process at all. > We want to avoid download large source repository checkouts > or large tarballs, this was one of the problems this project > was set out to solve. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ludo@ribbon /tmp$ git clone https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk Cloning into 'noto-cjk'... remote: Counting objects: 609, done. remote: Total 609 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 609 Receiving objects: 100% (609/609), 1.53 GiB | 6.66 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (486/486), done. Checking out files: 100% (140/140), done. ludo@ribbon /tmp$ du -ms noto-cjk/.git 1568 noto-cjk/.git --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Quite a lot. However, the snapshot is half that size: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix download https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/archive/v1.004.tar.gz Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.l7hpQP From https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/archive/v1.004.tar.gz... following redirection to `https://codeload.github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/tar.gz/v1.004'... v1.004 7.5MiB/s 01:44 | 785.4MiB transferred /gnu/store/45j4prjlvc25dpbq4qgh437051cdczx8-v1.004.tar.gz 075p99prv3b5pvq60myhfjb7zyphl6fn0ckg8156m38ybisl4nl3 ludo@ribbon /tmp$ du -ms /gnu/store/45j4prjlvc25dpbq4qgh437051cdczx8-v1.004.tar.gz 786 /gnu/store/45j4prjlvc25dpbq4qgh437051cdczx8-v1.004.tar.gz --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Maybe that’s OK, WDYT? How does it compare to the precompiled archives? > If someone could look into the build process and describe it here > and how big the repositories are, this would save a good amount > of time for me (can't look into it that much this week I think). That “someone” does not exist. If there were a whole bunch of people waiting to save your time, and mine, and everyone else’s, we’d know it by now. :-) Ludo’.