From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Soo Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:22:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20200404000352.7e6a671e@kompiuter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jKWaM-00020V-GR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:22:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKWaJ-0006At-OT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:22:53 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x530.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::530]:45937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jKWaJ-00068a-CK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:22:51 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-x530.google.com with SMTP id o26so4386049pgc.12 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:22:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20200404000352.7e6a671e@kompiuter> (Jan's message of "Sat, 4 Apr 2020 00:03:52 +0200") 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: Jan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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? - John