From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNOME
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:55:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eb8uwre.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd9f044f4258e3b1ab2126919c50c09a@disroot.org> (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Thu, 02 May 2019 05:20:27 +0000")
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 1:57 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 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-05-03 6:47 ` GNOME Raghav Gururajan
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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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