Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:03:18AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > Quite a few packages depend on (guix build syscalls), starting from
> > ‘ant-bootstrap’ (since commit cded3a759356ff66b7df668bcdbdfa0daf96f4c5
> > in 2018) up to GNOME-related packages such as ‘mutter’ (commit
> > d1c2fe248a7a326189fb7dcae64a59ece96251ba a few months ago).
> 
> An issue is that GNOME now depends on Java:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix graph gnome --path icedtea
> gnome@42.4
> font-abattis-cantarell@0.303
> python-cffsubr@0.2.9.post1
> python-afdko@3.9.1
> antlr4@4.10.1
> antlr3@3.5.2
> antlr2@2.7.7
> icedtea@3.19.0
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> It is great to have ‘font-abattis-cantarell’ built from source (since
> commit 97766323bc6e2b4dcfba4d6b46749a4280bca709), but it’s costly.
> 
> There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea
> dependency is optional.
> 
> Ideas?

I looked into this one since it was causing mate to not appear for
i686-linux. I wasn't able to remove the java dependency for the font,
generating the font explicitly imports cffsubr. Python-cffsubr needs
python-afdko for the 'tx' command. I suppose we could re-bundle it but I
haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.

Or we could just make that font optional.

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