Hello Mark! Thank you very much for the explanation. Do you know what are the target packages to be included with our gnome-service? From that target, is all of them packaged or anything left?
May 2, 2019 9:57 PM, "Mark H Weaver" <m...@netris.org> wrote: > Hi Raghav, > > "Raghav Gururajan" <r...@disroot.org> writes: > >> Does GNOME meta-package in Guix, corresponds to [1] or [2] or mix of both? >> >> [1] https://packages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome >> [2] https://packages.debian.org/stable/metapackages/gnome-core > > Guix doesn't currently have a package that corresponds to either of > those. Our 'gnome' package aims to include only the GNOME core desktop, > whereas Debian's 'gnome-core' also adds "other applications integrating > with GNOME and Debian". For example, Debian's 'gnome-core' includes > Firefox or Chromium, although neither of them are part of GNOME. > > Another important difference is that the 'gnome-core' package on Debian > automatically arranges to install and launch the various system services > that are needed for GNOME to function, whereas on Guix, an installed > package is merely a static object on the file system that cannot take > any action on its own. > > To install the GNOME core desktop on a Guix system, you need to include > (service gnome-desktop-service-type) in your OS configuration, which > also arranges to add the 'gnome' package to your system profile. > > So, I would say that the closest analogue to Debian's 'gnome-core' > package in Guix is not a package at all, but rather, our > 'gnome-desktop-service-type'. > > Mark
