From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: A couple roadblocks using guix Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oapqzgka.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:59787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOtf-0004Ys-4U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:02:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOtb-00061G-On for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:02:35 -0500 Received: from na3sys009aog134.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.83]:50791 helo=mail-pa0-f50.google.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOtb-000615-Hb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:02:31 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id rd3so3366426pab.9 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:02:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87oapqzgka.fsf@gnu.org> 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Omar Radwan skribis: > >> The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow m= e >> to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like = for >> instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build >> programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declarati= on >> to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I co= me >> from Debian). > > Right. There=E2=80=99s one such meta-package, which is =E2=80=98gcc-tool= chain=E2=80=99. > Perhaps more are needed. > > OTOH, =E2=80=98guix environment=E2=80=99 can really do =E2=80=9Cmeta-pack= ages on demand=E2=80=9D, so to > speak, so I wonder whether things like =E2=80=98build-essential=E2=80=99 = make so much > sense in that context. 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. My 2 cents. - Dave