From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: common software Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:35:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20180128122259.77acba52@jasniac.instanton> <871si9twey.fsf@elephly.net> <87o9lck393.fsf@gnu.org> <86372o7bkv.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9lcrwkj.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egTGN-0006jy-5E for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:35:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egTGE-0007Pg-Vi for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:35:39 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-x243.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::243]:42934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egTGE-0007PE-Om for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:35:30 -0500 Received: by mail-wr0-x243.google.com with SMTP id 41so9148718wrc.9 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 02:35:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87o9lcrwkj.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: myglc2@gmail.com, help-guix@gnu.org, Marco van Hulten >> Why not provide different default flavoured profiles ? >> Say, desktop, www, ssh-server, etc. As Debian-installer proposes. > > Do you mean like meta packages? Or GuixSD template configurations? We > have both: usually we define meta packages for desktop environments or > toolchains; we also provide different template GuixSD configurations > (desktop, lightweight-desktop, and bare-bones). I was thinking about template configurations. Apologies. I did not dived enough carefully into. Because of your previous message, I will give a look with fresh eyes. All the best, simon