From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: what is the difference among files in /gnu/store
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:12:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B8D6728-7DBE-4408-AA6F-57C58197CA3E@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d588f16-c719-9098-4b70-84d8b82b1334@posteo.de>
Hi Gottfried,
How did you get this list of store items?
The first one comes from "mate". That's a meta-package that contains the union of a bunch of packages that are needed to run mate.
The second is the content of a system generation. You probably installed mate in your system :). The system generation is also the union of packages that you declared, so it includes mate, and consequently, the theme.
The last two are different versions of "mate-themes". I don't know which is more recent.
If possible, please don't use a store path in your configuration. If you update the system, the new version will be at a different location (even if the version number is the same, as you've seen with mate-themes). It might get garbage-collected and will definitely get out of date.
Instead, you should reference a theme by its name only. If mate lets you, try to set the theme to "TraditionalGreen" and that will always be the latest version.
HTH!
On June 1, 2022 9:03:39 PM GMT+02:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>Hi guixers,
>
>e.g.
>
>I have in my MATE desktop a theme called "TraditionalGreen"
>
>There are several files.
>What is the difference?
>
>/gnu/store/09bi02ldaqsykdfi8szv225z4adl98hj-mate-1.24.1/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>
>/gnu/store/65dvsqhxly3cs33m935amvg1wc38s1ii-system/profile/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>
>/gnu/store/aqpb71z7nl1jbaxi7q2364x5hm2lsab9-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>
>/gnu/store/y3cwrifdqvainwddij7zvk0lspvbpsia-mate-themes-3.22.21/share/themes/TraditionalGreen
>
>
>The 1. and 2. have a different Icon, it has something to do with a link (Verknüpfung german).
>
>Which one is used for the desktop?
>
>I want to learn the basics!
>
>Gottfried
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2022-06-01 19:03 what is the difference among files in /gnu/store Gottfried
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