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From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, 31366@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31366: Missing icons in virt-manager user-interface
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 21:12:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhx29g2c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftyu1y0a.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:11:49 +0200")

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 15:11:49 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Much like we pin search path recommendations to certain “root” packages
> we could do something similar for recommended packages.  “glibc”, for
> example, could recommend “glibc-locales”; having a package installed
> that links with glibc (i.e. all of them) would result in a
> recommendation to also install the “glibc-locales” package.  For “gtk+”
> the recommendation could be to also install one of the icon themes.
> Installing any package depending on “gtk+” would then lead to a
> recommendation to install one of these packages.

That seems like desirable behavior to me.

> Unfortunately, some of these recommendations will only be correct when
> using Guix on top of a foreign distribution, because we handle common
> scenarios on the Guix-based GNU system directly.

I can't comment on that, but in this virt-manager case, I did experience
the issue on GuixSD.

-- 
Mike Gerwitz

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-01  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-05  0:10 bug#31366: Missing icons in virt-manager user-interface Vagrant Cascadian
2018-08-27 23:09 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-08-29 21:05   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-08-29 22:24     ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30  1:01       ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-31 13:11         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-01  1:12           ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]

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