From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: common software
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:07:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871si9twey.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180128122259.77acba52@jasniac.instanton>
Hi Marco,
> Even though there is some subjectivity in what is essential software, a
> clean installation of GuixSD is very minimal. Is there a reason for
> this?
The reason is primarily that with Guix it is *possible* to do so. It
allows different users on the same system to have different sets of
software; as you wrote this is a very subjective decision, so we simply
leave it up to the user.
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-28 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-28 11:22 common software Marco van Hulten
2018-01-28 23:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-01-29 17:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-29 18:40 ` myglc2
2018-01-29 19:14 ` zimoun
2018-01-30 0:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30 10:35 ` zimoun
2018-01-31 19:05 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2018-01-29 19:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30 0:05 ` myglc2
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