Re: GNOME Desktop

[Ricardo Wurmus]

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:13:38PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> writes:
>> > You can type in the terminal:
>> >
>> > guix install gnome-calendar
>> >
>> > This should become part of guix’ gnome package.  That it is missing is
>> > a bug.
>>
>> Is it really?  I do like that we can choose to install only the
>> essential parts of GNOME without having to install packages that we may
>> not need.
>>
>> Perhaps this could remain configurable.
>>
>
> In this case, maybe there should be a gnome-minimal package.

This seems like a good idea.  Users of the gnome-service-type could swap
out “gnome” (which would default to including all packages the GNOME
developers deem to be part of a recommended GNOME installation) for
“gnome-minimal”.

Shall we discuss the details at bug 35586?

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Ricardo