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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index c55eb63382..9f705d27a2 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -477,6 +477,16 @@ often better to clone the repository. Don't use the @command{name} field in the URL: it is not very useful and if the name changes, the URL will probably be wrong. +@item +Try to minimize the weight of the inputs to make the transitive closure as +small as possible (@pxref{Invoking guix size}). Use @command{native-inputs} +and @command{inputs} appropriately. It's sometimes sufficient to use the +@command{-minimal} version of a package as input, e.g. @command{bash-minimal} +instead of @command{bash}. In particular, avoid adding @command{texlive} as a +dependency: because of its extreme size, it's both heavy on the build farms +and on the users who would like to build or hack the package from source. Use +@command{texlive-tiny} or @command{texlive-union} instead. + @end enumerate When posting a patch to the mailing list, use @samp{[PATCH] @dots{}} as |