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From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 08:48:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=ph+7cCB6GgqtX4r5q=ZuMt9MD5uYoLP-SG8YLWJ=OUZZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v9mg9k17.fsf@asu.edu>

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Hello,

John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. ápr. 4., Szo 2:23):

> Hi there,
>
> I am on board with providing some predefined lists of packages.
>
> I raised the idea of providing smaller lists of packages that might go
> well together instead of one large %desktop-packages. One reason to do
> this, for instance, might be to not make someone who wants to use btrfs
> always import the ext4 packages. Or not lock someone into using nettools
> if they are using iproute2, etc.
>
> Similarly, I think that many users, myself included, use a manifest file
> to manage user packages. It would help to have finer grained
> package lists so that the manifests could reuse them and not be
> requiring system basics along with it.
>
> What do you think?
>

This is more in line with my thoughts. Also, if we have some of these fine
grained lists, it would be easy to provide collections of these, so we can
do both things, but in a more useful way.

>
> - John
>

Best regards,
g_bor

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-04  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 22:03 Adding a %desktop-packages Jan
2020-04-04  0:22 ` John Soo
2020-04-04  6:48   ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
2020-04-04  8:04   ` Brice Waegeneire
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-02 17:18 Adding ‘rottlog-service-type’ to ‘%base-services’ Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-03 11:37 ` Adding a %desktop-packages Joshua Branson
2020-04-06  8:01   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06  9:14     ` Gábor Boskovits

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