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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: GNOME Desktop
Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 23:19:42 +0200
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:13:38PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
>> > You can type in the terminal:
>> >
>> > guix install gnome-calendar
>> >
>> > This should become part of guix=E2=80=99 gnome package.  That it is mi=
ssing is
>> > a bug.
>>
>> Is it really?  I do like that we can choose to install only the
>> essential parts of GNOME without having to install packages that we may
>> not need.
>>
>> Perhaps this could remain configurable.
>>
>
> In this case, maybe there should be a gnome-minimal package.

This seems like a good idea.  Users of the gnome-service-type could swap
out =E2=80=9Cgnome=E2=80=9D (which would default to including all packages =
the GNOME
developers deem to be part of a recommended GNOME installation) for
=E2=80=9Cgnome-minimal=E2=80=9D.

Shall we discuss the details at bug 35586?

--
Ricardo