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To: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org

On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:32 +0000, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> Hello Guix Folks!
> 
> I would like to contribute to Guix via Outreachy program. Based on
> domains listed in http://guix.gnu.org/contribute, I would like to
> work on "Packages".
> 
> After brief discussion with Tobias (nckx) on IRC, I came up with
> following ideas.
> 
> 1) Improve GNOME Software Stack and GNOME Desktop Environment's user-
> experience in Guix.
...
> (b) Revise Meta-Package(s): Clean-up gnome and create gnome-minimal.
...
> 2) Improve Xfce Software Stack and Xfce Desktop Environment's user-
> experience in Guix.
...
> (b) Revise Meta-Package(s): Clean-up xfce and create xfce-minimal.
> 

Yes! I don't think I'm alone in frustration over unnecessary packages
installed systemwide.