From: "Raghav Gururajan" <rvgn@disroot.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNOME
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 06:47:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70fb52e5232ed8a0ab4e30076e320fa1@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eb8uwre.fsf@netris.org>
Hello Mark!
Thank you very much for the explanation. Do you know what are the target packages to be included with our gnome-service? From that target, is all of them packaged or anything left?
May 2, 2019 9:57 PM, "Mark H Weaver" <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> Hi Raghav,
>
> "Raghav Gururajan" <rvgn@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Does GNOME meta-package in Guix, corresponds to [1] or [2] or mix of both?
>>
>> [1] https://packages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome
>> [2] https://packages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome-core
>
> Guix doesn't currently have a package that corresponds to either of
> those. Our 'gnome' package aims to include only the GNOME core desktop,
> whereas Debian's 'gnome-core' also adds "other applications integrating
> with GNOME and Debian". For example, Debian's 'gnome-core' includes
> Firefox or Chromium, although neither of them are part of GNOME.
>
> Another important difference is that the 'gnome-core' package on Debian
> automatically arranges to install and launch the various system services
> that are needed for GNOME to function, whereas on Guix, an installed
> package is merely a static object on the file system that cannot take
> any action on its own.
>
> To install the GNOME core desktop on a Guix system, you need to include
> (service gnome-desktop-service-type) in your OS configuration, which
> also arranges to add the 'gnome' package to your system profile.
>
> So, I would say that the closest analogue to Debian's 'gnome-core'
> package in Guix is not a package at all, but rather, our
> 'gnome-desktop-service-type'.
>
> Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-02 5:20 GNOME Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-02 6:18 ` GNOME znavko
2019-05-03 1:55 ` GNOME Mark H Weaver
2019-05-03 6:47 ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
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2019-05-06 15:24 GNOME Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-06 16:03 ` GNOME Raghav Gururajan
2016-03-18 21:22 GNOME rennes
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