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doc: minimal profile: explain building the configurations may be costly
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qaristote committed Jun 11, 2024
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only support the user-selected locale,
[disables packages' documentation](#opt-documentation.enable),
and [disables sound](#opt-sound.enable).

With this profile enabled, a lot of package derivations will differ from the
ones available for download in the binary cache (because they are built with
X libraries enabled by default), and will thus have to be built locally.
Hence, while configurations built using this profile may be appropriate for
machines with low resources, the configurations themselves should still be
built on more powerful machines.

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