On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Omar Radwan <toxemicsqui...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow me >> to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like for >> instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build >> programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declaration >> to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I come >> from Debian). > > Right. There’s one such meta-package, which is ‘gcc-toolchain’. > Perhaps more are needed. > > OTOH, ‘guix environment’ can really do “meta-packages on demand”, so to > speak, so I wonder whether things like ‘build-essential’ make so much > sense in that context.
However, because 'guix environment' doesn't manipulate a user's profile, I think that it would still be very useful to create these meta-packages. For this specific case, yes, 'guix environment' can be used to fetch the necessary GCC toolchain to develop something, but what about non-development packages? It would be very convenient to be able to run 'guix package -i xfce-desktop', for example. My 2 cents. - Dave
