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From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
Subject: Re: Should %base-services be included by default in the OS
	configuration generated by the installer?
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 19:44:41 -0500
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To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
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Hi Tim,

---- On Wed, 08 May 2019 19:35:45 -0500 Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> =
wrote ----

 > Hi sirgazil,=20
 > =20
 > sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> writes:=20
 > =20
 > > Hi,=20
 > >=20
 > > The Guix System 1.0.0 installer has a bug that makes it generate=20
 > > operating system configuration files that don't include the=20
 > > %base-packages=20
 > > (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D35541). The=20
 > > configuration file of the system I installed was initially generated=
=20
 > > by the installer, so I had to add the base packages by hand. Now, I'm=
=20
 > > reading the Services section in the manual and I see that there is a=
=20
 > > %base-services variable. My configuration file does not include=20
 > > this. Should one expect the configuration file generated by the=20
 > > installer to include these services too?=20
 > =20
 > Does your configuration have =E2=80=9C%desktop-services=E2=80=9D instead=
?  The=20
 > =E2=80=9C%desktop-services=E2=80=9D list includes everything from =E2=80=
=9C%base-services=E2=80=9D.=20

Yes, %desktop-services is there. So I guess it's fine.

I still have no working CD/DVD (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?b=
ug=3D35584) and bluetooth, so I thought maybe not having =E2=80=9C%base-ser=
vices=E2=80=9D had something to do with that.

Thanks for your help :)