From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: %desktop-services
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 18:10:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ud14ata.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4l1pgej.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> I thought it would be helpful to have a ‘%desktop-services’ variable
> that would provide the things most “desktop” users typically want in
> addition to what ‘%base-services’ provides. See attached patch.
>
> Someone using ‘%desktop-services’ still need to add, say, Xfce to the
> declaration’s ‘packages’ field, but that’s already an improvement. We
> could have ‘%desktop-packages’, but I’d rather not choose a specific DE
> or WM to put in there.
>
> Thoughts?
Looks great! Less work for the user.
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2015-05-06 21:03 %desktop-services Ludovic Courtès
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