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Re: How to modify GNOME
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: How to modify GNOME |
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Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:27:43 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Hi Brett,
> Awhile back on the Guix-Devel list I proposed a question as to how to
> /best/ modify the GNOME package that gets pulled into the
> gnome-desktop-service. My reason for asking this is because a lot of
> what comes with GNOME (evince, epiphany, etc.) I do not have a use for,
> but I do not want to define an entirely new package as that would be
> quite sloppy.
Why would that be sloppy?
It is common to create variant packages by inheriting:
(define my/gnome
(package (inherit gnome)
(propagated-inputs
`(("this" ,this)
("that" ,that)))))
Can you show us what you tried?
--
Ricardo