From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: GNOME Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:55:22 -0400 Message-ID: <877eb8uwre.fsf@netris.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMNRl-0006Ud-SY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 21:57:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMNRk-0007gB-G7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 21:57:09 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:59674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMNRk-0007g1-DH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 21:57:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Thu, 02 May 2019 05:20:27 +0000") 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: Raghav Gururajan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Raghav, "Raghav Gururajan" 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