From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 25296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:40:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp0hlsl4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161229171045.263747a9@riseup.net>
Hi,
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> IMHO Guix should mimic what Debian is doing in this particular case.
>> Meaning having desktop packages that contain a “full” desktop with
>> default applications for common usages.
>>
>> This would consist in adding ‘libreoffice’ and replacing ‘epiphany’ with
>> ‘icecat’ in the ‘gnome’ package. Additionally a ‘gnome-core’ package
>> (or ‘gnome-minimal’ which seems to be the name convention chosen by
>> Guix) could be created with the minimal set of packages required to have
>> a working GNOME desktop, for OCD people that don't like having unused
>> packages installed.
>
> Hmm, OK. Do you think it’s too much to ask, given the current audience
> (tinkerers), to add those packages to their config, or to install them
> with “guix package -i”?
Definitely not, it is even better for tinkerers to not have those
“bloated” bundles/meta-packages full of defaults they don't like. :-)
--
Mathieu Lirzin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-16 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-29 22:10 bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation Quiliro
2017-01-02 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <20170108041145.6d9a5cbc@riseup.net>
2017-01-08 10:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 11:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-14 13:34 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-14 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-15 13:26 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-15 13:49 ` myglc2
2018-01-16 10:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 11:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-16 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 7:09 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-17 8:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 11:34 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-01-16 13:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 15:40 ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2018-01-17 9:56 ` Oleg Pykhalov
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