From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Shell installer script (feedback) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:17:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87pnsvf600.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87tvi7fbif.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkDB3-0005Zu-4F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:18:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkDB2-0001nQ-CX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:18:09 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o53.zoho.com ([135.84.80.218]:21800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkDB1-0001eW-SZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:18:08 -0500 In-reply-to: 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: zimoun Cc: Guix Devel zimoun writes: >> > As a newcomer, I find it lacks an optional installation of default >> > packages in the default profiles. >> > I have in mind: nss-certs, recutils, emacs (or info), glibc-locales. >> >> I think that=E2=80=99s fine as the purpose of this script is just to get= Guix >> itself installed. For everything past that you can use Guix. > > For example, the Debian proposes some flavour, as SSH server, which > desktop, etc. It is optional but it really eases the first experience > and strongly facilitates the access to newcomers. IMHO. That=E2=80=99s something the *system installer* can provide. I see the rol= e of the installer *script* to be much more limited. --=20 Ricardo