Samba: reduce bloat by linking dynamically about nixpkgs HOT 7 CLOSED

@edolstra Have you had a chance to look into this yet? Do you plan to get it in before 14.04?

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@wkennington: any ideas about this issue? I see the size of samba is ~72MB currently, and we also have samba_light with ~113MB size (and less dependencies). I suspect that not supplying some dependencies forces samba to pack more stuff in, so it isn't really clear which is lighter (perhaps depending on other installed packages).

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Yeah, exactly. Light is just nicer in the sense that you have far fewer
dependencies.
On Mar 14, 2015 6:17 AM, "Vladimír Čunát" [email protected] wrote:

@wkennington https://github.com/wkennington: any ideas about this
issue? I see the size of samba is ~72MB currently, and we also have
samba_light with ~113MB size (and less dependencies). I suspect that not
supplying some dependencies forces samba to pack more stuff in, so it isn't
really clear which is lighter (perhaps depending on other installed
packages).

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$  du -sch $(nix-store -qR $(nix-build -A samba_light))
...
162M    /nix/store/kml4z8cdrqjdbibzzil1wzzj5vl34r2l-samba-4.2.0
447M    total

$ du -sch $(nix-store -qR $(nix-build -A samba))
...
159M    /nix/store/wykzvg6bn0mip4dir7qzpfkm56a4ikgp-samba-4.2.0
841M    total

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Samba is now 52MiB and the entire closure is 225MiB, of which 90MiB come from Python and Perl. Should this issue be closed?

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I do think so. Also ./result/bin/* sizes look sane now.

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It might still be possible to improve. I suspect many reverse dependencies use mainly the libraries, so the ~13 MB in bin/ might be nice to split, for example (half of it is due to smbtorture, too :).

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