From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brice Waegeneire Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 08:04:12 +0000 Message-ID: <6d059f5d72615a3975bd31f7d6743b03@waegenei.re> References: <20200404000352.7e6a671e@kompiuter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jKdmv-00014l-Vg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 04:04:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKdmv-000591-2B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 04:04:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Soo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Guix-devel Hello John, On 2020-04-04 00:22, John Soo wrote: > I raised the idea of providing smaller lists of packages that might go > well together instead of one large %desktop-packages. One reason to do > this, for instance, might be to not make someone who wants to use btrfs > always import the ext4 packages. Or not lock someone into using > nettools > if they are using iproute2, etc. Regarding the file-system utils packages I'm working on a patch adding them to the system profile based on the type of file-system defined. So, in the end, `e2fsprogs`, `btrfs-progs` and such will be removed from %base-packages. Also I've just submitted a patch[0] to split %base-packages as we talked about on IRC a couple of weeks ago. [0]: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40423 - Brice