Qt wrapper causes closure bloat #69272
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0.kind: bug
Something is broken
1.severity: blocker
This is preventing another PR or issue from being completed
6.topic: closure size
The final size of a derivation, including its dependencies
6.topic: qt/kde
Milestone
In NixOS 19.09 beta, every Qt/KDE application has a lot of unnecessary build-time dependencies in their closure, e.g.
/nix/store/hqbzf9k4chwn4ch8naka5c4r6mpa5gqv-kinit-5.61.0/bin/kdeinit5
:and so on for about 70 dependencies.
It also bloats the environment, for example in konsole I get
This appears to be caused by #54525. Ping @ttuegel.
Marking this as a blocker for 19.09 since making every build-time dependency a runtime dependency kind of negates any closure size improvements made in recent years. In that light I would be in favor of reverting #54525.
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