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Subject: bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:59:07 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 25296@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

>> Hmm, OK.  Do you think it=E2=80=99s too much to ask, given the current a=
udience
>> (tinkerers), to add those packages to their config, or to install them
>> with =E2=80=9Cguix package -i=E2=80=9D?

[...]

> Long story short, I think it's a good thing that the user has his own pro=
file which isn't magically updated and doesn't magically pick up things not=
 in the user profile - except when it's already in the store bitwise-identi=
cal.  That way, if he needs some application for work it will not randomly =
break and he can be sure that it will do what it did yesterday.  If he want=
s to update, he updates.  Otherwise not.  His choice.

Agreed, though in this case (GNOME), we=E2=80=99re pretty much talking about
single-user machines.

> I'd vote for adding libreoffice and icecat to desktop.tmpl and not to gno=
me (since they are not part of the GNOME project).

OK, why not.  There=E2=80=99s still the issue that it will make download ti=
mes
and disk size requirements longer (a problem we should fix, but this
won=E2=80=99t happen overnight.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.