From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix pull; guix package -u; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:42:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220412024210.7afe29b1@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c76bf8f-6bb7-0a56-e1b1-71e2a8b4169b@posteo.de>
On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:01:59 +0000
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
> Do I have to do a "sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm"
> always after the "guix package -u"?
> Can I do it every month or every second month? when I don't need the
> latest version of packages?
>
> Gottfried
>
>
> > I solve the latter by having a very lean system profile, only the
> > bare essentials are installed for the whole system, things like the
> > window manager are only in my user profile. raingloom@riseup.net
>
> How did you do that? to create a "very lean system profile"?
> I am not a hacker but a normal Linux user right now.
>
> Gottfried
>
>
Don't add big packages like gnome to the operating-system's packages
field. If you based your system on the desktop template, then it's
probably a part of it.
That's pretty much it, really. GNOME was the biggest problem for me.
Sometimes GDM would cause issues too, so I got rid of that as well.
This might be overkill for your use case.
I can't really write a proper tutorial right now, so here are some
starting points:
* the `filter` function in Guile Scheme
* combine with service-kind to remove services you don't need
* the %desktop-services definition in the Guix source code, or just
eval it from a Guile REPL and see what's in it
In general, don't put anything in the `packages` field, unless you need
it for system rescue and administration. So, putting rsync there is
fine, you might need it for restoring from a backup. But GNOME is not
fine, it has a lot of dependencies that you probably won't even use and
any one of them could slow down or break your system build.
Caveat emptor: it might not be possible to use GNOME with a display
manager (like GDM, it's the graphical thingy you log in with) unless
it's installed in your system profile. You might have to launch it
manually with something like `dbus-run-session gnome`, this is also how
you would launch Sway.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-10 10:01 guix pull; guix package -u; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm Gottfried
2022-04-12 0:42 ` raingloom [this message]
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2022-04-07 20:40 Gottfried
2022-04-08 2:38 ` raingloom
2022-04-27 21:29 ` Cássio Tavares
2022-04-27 23:18 ` raingloom
2022-04-08 6:50 ` David Lecompte via
2022-04-28 14:15 ` EuAndreh
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