From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:14:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=phyL2hVFp0RziB9h_c891kGs4DiRN_sJik7yNYVvi02xQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftdhf3fn.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. ápr. 6., Hét 10:02):
> 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.
>
Yes, this will not be statisfactory. However I believe that doing something
like this would be great:
define icecat-recommended
define browser-recommended icecat-recommended
define desktop-recommended (append desktop-recommended base-packages) with
deduplication.
I believe this approach has two merits:
We can provide an easy setup for those interested, and inspectable for
those who would like a working system, but want to configure certain aspects
And we can state the officially recommended software for a given task, so
that it is possible to focus efforts on these.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
Best regards,
g_bor
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 9:15 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
2020-04-06 9:14 ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
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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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