From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 08:48:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20200404000352.7e6a671e@kompiuter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000001d876405a2716ba1" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jKcbM-0003Bt-MZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 02:48:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKcbL-0002Zf-Js for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 02:48:20 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x42b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::42b]:34219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKcbL-0002Yw-DV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 02:48:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x42b.google.com with SMTP id 65so11088097wrl.1 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:48:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Soo Cc: Guix-devel --0000000000001d876405a2716ba1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, John Soo ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. =C3=A1pr. 4., S= zo 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 > --0000000000001d876405a2716ba1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,

John Soo <js= oo1@asu.edu> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. =C3=A1pr. 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 s= ome 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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