Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:31:36PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> The later sounds easiest, but is it really problematic to have Java as a
> transitive native input to GNOME?  I mean, it already depends on Rust,
> and OpenJDK builds orders of times faster than Rust.

Having java as a transitive dependency is unfortunate but it doesn't get
pulled into the enclosure, so I suppose it doesn't really matter, and
the java part really doesn't change that often.

The Java problem seems to have resolved itself, now we're at
python-afdko isn't passing its test suite on i686. Looking at the GitHub
actions and the issue tracker it looks like they don't do testing or
building wheels anymore for 32-bit platforms.

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