From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:48:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20170222164854.GB3815@jasmine> References: <87wpci347f.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cga69-0000VR-3S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:49:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cga65-0007uq-4H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:49:01 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpci347f.fsf@gnu.org> 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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:33:24AM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Hi, > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > I think we should remove xmonad from the lightweight-desktop OS > > declaration example. Xmonad is not "lightweight" in terms of disk space > > or bandwidth, since it requires GHC, which is 859 MiB uncompressed. > > Makes sense. > > > Also, the i3 window manager is not very useful without dmenu and > > i3status, so I think we should add them. > > Agreed. Okay, I'll wait another day or so for more comments. > While we are on this lightweight template, what would you think of > replacing ratpoison with something less "exotic" like openbox? :) This is really a separate discussion! :)