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Re: Adding a %desktop-packages


From: Gábor Boskovits
Subject: Re: Adding a %desktop-packages
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:14:46 +0200

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. ápr. 6., Hét 10:02):
Hi Joshua,

Joshua Branson <address@hidden> skribis:

> This is slightly unrelated, but your email reminded me.
>
> How about we add a %desktop-packages variable?  I remember reading a bug
> report about possibly ungoogled-chromium or some package not working
> properly, because the user did not install a font.  Perhaps if people
> are using a %desktop, there should be some %desktop-packages that most
> users will want installed by default.  Packages would include a web
> browser, one system font, etc.

I think we should address the font issue.  A ‘%desktop-packages’ is
bound to never be satisfactory for anyone because it’s so subjective.

Yes, this will not be statisfactory. However I believe that doing something like this would be great:
define icecat-recommended
define browser-recommended icecat-recommended
define desktop-recommended (append desktop-recommended base-packages) with deduplication.
I believe this approach has two merits:
We can provide an easy setup for those interested, and inspectable for those who would like a working system, but want to configure certain aspects
And we can state the officially recommended software for a given task, so that it is possible to focus efforts on these.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Best regards,
g_bor


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