From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raghav Gururajan" Subject: Re: GNOME Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 06:47:11 +0000 Message-ID: <70fb52e5232ed8a0ab4e30076e320fa1@disroot.org> References: <877eb8uwre.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMRyY-0000F3-CI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:47:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMRyW-0002DR-NH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:47:18 -0400 Received: from knopi.disroot.org ([178.21.23.139]:49754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMRyV-0002C7-74 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:47:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877eb8uwre.fsf@netris.org> 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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Mark!=0A=0AThank you very much for the explanation. Do you know wha= t are the target packages to be included with our gnome-service? From tha= t target, is all of them packaged or anything left?=0A=0AMay 2, 2019 9:57= PM, "Mark H Weaver" wrote:=0A=0A> Hi Raghav,=0A> =0A> "= Raghav Gururajan" writes:=0A> =0A>> Does GNOME meta-pa= ckage in Guix, corresponds to [1] or [2] or mix of both?=0A>> =0A>> [1] h= ttps://packages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome=0A>> [2] https://pac= kages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome-core=0A> =0A> Guix doesn't cur= rently have a package that corresponds to either of=0A> those. Our 'gnome= ' package aims to include only the GNOME core desktop,=0A> whereas Debian= 's 'gnome-core' also adds "other applications integrating=0A> with GNOME = and Debian". For example, Debian's 'gnome-core' includes=0A> Firefox or C= hromium, although neither of them are part of GNOME.=0A> =0A> Another imp= ortant difference is that the 'gnome-core' package on Debian=0A> automati= cally arranges to install and launch the various system services=0A> that= are needed for GNOME to function, whereas on Guix, an installed=0A> pack= age is merely a static object on the file system that cannot take=0A> any= action on its own.=0A> =0A> To install the GNOME core desktop on a Guix = system, you need to include=0A> (service gnome-desktop-service-type) in y= our OS configuration, which=0A> also arranges to add the 'gnome' package = to your system profile.=0A> =0A> So, I would say that the closest analogu= e to Debian's 'gnome-core'=0A> package in Guix is not a package at all, b= ut rather, our=0A> 'gnome-desktop-service-type'.=0A> =0A> Mark