diffoscope: runtime dependency on ghc

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diffoscope: runtime dependency on ghc #167350

Open FRidh opened 2 years ago

FRidh commented 2 years ago

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Massive dependency.

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Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
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FRidh commented 2 years ago

Seems like bloat is enabled by default. I'd like to make the default the non-bloated version since IMO it is rare one needs all those extensions @dezgeg @ma27 @danielfullmer.

Ma27 commented 2 years ago

I'd like to make the default the non-bloated version since IMO it is rare one needs all those extensions

Agreed. also cc @SuperSandro2000

SuperSandro2000 commented 2 years ago

Is there anything in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/misc/diffoscope/default.nix#L57-L60 which would be desirable to be moved out of bloat?

philiptaron commented 4 months ago

I really like how diffoscope works with everything (i.e. is bloated) by default. Consider me downvoting this proposal.

SuperSandro2000 commented 3 months ago

diffoscope is currently 8.7 GB in size and ghc is a whopping 2.3GB of that which is insane and normally not justifiable for an optional and rarely used feature.