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This looks like an amazing project, except, if I'm not running of your preferred distros, the size seems a bit excessive:

  $ tar xf nyxt-*.tar.xz -C nyxt
  $ du -chs nyxt
  1.7G nyxt

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Note this is the "fully contained Guix pack" (a bit like a container) which contains all the recursive dependencies, which includes WebKitGTK, GTK and the like.

Nyxt alone is about 100-150 MiB uncompressed, which is what it costs you if you install it via your package manager.

I did not see mention of this on the download page, so I was taken aback. It does seems the Ubuntu package works in Debian, but that wasn't clear on the website, either.

What mention did you not see? Is there anything I can clarify? Please let me know, feedback is always welcome.

About the .deb: Indeed, it's built on Ubuntu, so it's not guaranteed to work on Debian, which is why we didn't mention it.

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