From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: should gnome-desktop-service really provide all of this to a profile? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:11:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87si0256y9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y49u70eo.fsf@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2RU-0003yL-3N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:11:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2RT-0007iq-82 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:11:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y49u70eo.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:50:07 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andy Wingo skribis: > I installed gnome using > > guix package --profile=3D/tmp/foo-profile -i gnome > > There is a lot of stuff there. If gnome-desktop-service extends > profile-service-type with gnome, will that not "pollute" a lot of > profiles? Attached is a listing of that profile. Good point, this sounds undesirable (and shows that some packages would benefit from separate outputs=E2=80=94e.g., =E2=80=9Cdoc=E2=80=9D output fo= r xcb.) What exactly is required? Would it work to change the =E2=80=98gnome=E2=80= =99 meta-package to union only the bin/ sub-directories instead of everything? Ludo=E2=80=99.