From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: common software Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:07:17 +0100 Message-ID: <871si9twey.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20180128122259.77acba52@jasniac.instanton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efw2y-0000Yf-LC for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:07:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efw2t-0000vC-Mi for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:07:36 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efw2t-0000uE-DI for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:07:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <20180128122259.77acba52@jasniac.instanton> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Marco van Hulten Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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 GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net