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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:01:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftdhf3fn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9mgssua.fsf@dismail.de> (Joshua Branson's message of "Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:37:33 -0400")

Hi Joshua,

Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> skribis:

> This is slightly unrelated, but your email reminded me.
>
> How about we add a %desktop-packages variable?  I remember reading a bug
> report about possibly ungoogled-chromium or some package not working
> properly, because the user did not install a font.  Perhaps if people
> are using a %desktop, there should be some %desktop-packages that most
> users will want installed by default.  Packages would include a web
> browser, one system font, etc.

I think we should address the font issue.  A ‘%desktop-packages’ is
bound to never be satisfactory for anyone because it’s so subjective.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-02 17:18 Adding ‘rottlog-service-type’ to ‘%base-services’ Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-02 18:28 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-04-03 11:37 ` Adding a %desktop-packages Joshua Branson
2020-04-06  8:01   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-06  9:14     ` Gábor Boskovits
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-03 22:03 Jan
2020-04-04  0:22 ` John Soo
2020-04-04  6:48   ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-04-04  8:04   ` Brice Waegeneire

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