"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > 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.
Ah yes, good point. I think we discussed Xfce specifically before, but I’m not sure why it hasn’t landed. 宋文武? :-) So in general I agree it’s a good idea, and it’s easily done with ‘union-build’, so if people know of useful meta-packages, please send a patch. Thanks, Ludo’.
