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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A couple roadblocks using guix
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:43:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppa5x4y1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZAOt+_QFSQj96=SCVNcqH6Nj2vNwKzMwZrcOOQfSYq0w@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:06 -0500")

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> However, because 'guix environment' doesn't manipulate a user's
> profile, I think that it would still be very useful to create these
> meta-packages.  For this specific case, yes, 'guix environment' can be
> used to fetch the necessary GCC toolchain to develop something, but
> what about non-development packages?  It would be very convenient to
> be able to run 'guix package -i xfce-desktop', for example.

Ah yes, good point.

I think we discussed Xfce specifically before, but I’m not sure why it
hasn’t landed.  宋文武?  :-)

So in general I agree it’s a good idea, and it’s easily done with
‘union-build’, so if people know of useful meta-packages, please
send a patch.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-22  1:52 A couple roadblocks using guix Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 13:02 ` Adam Pribyl
2015-01-22 14:55   ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 20:57   ` Thompson, David
2015-01-23  8:43     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-23 21:48       ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-24  6:09         ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-24 20:27           ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-25 17:10             ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]               ` <CAMwaQAKUCxMoQU6N+PnDChhnfHBS2Vp0fBF4rS-pa-Va-HFjNQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-25 18:18                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 20:51           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 20:53         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 21:57           ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-24 22:54             ` David Thompson
2015-01-22 21:08   ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 23:59   ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-23  8:51     ` Ludovic Courtès

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