Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:50:01 +0800 > [email protected] (宋文武) wrote: > >> With commit a4df575, we can get a minimal gnome-shell on GuixSD. >> >> Make sure you have elogind and upower-daemon services running, >> and add the following packages: >> >> adwaita-icon-theme, gnome-session, gnome-shell, >> gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, dbus >> >> to the packages field (to use with the silm login manager) or >> user profile (then add 'exec gnome-session' to ~/.xsession). >> >> Please give suggestions :-) >> > > Does this mean its time to create a gnome metapackage like XFCE has? Yes, but some essential packages are still missing, eg: nautilus.
I think the metapackage should include all core GNOME packages as the ‘gnome-core’ from debian: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-core Also, ludo mention that we can define %gnome-packages as a list instead of a metapackage, it's more lightweight. But a list can't be searched and installed as a normal package by user, so I think a metapackage is better. Maybe people could even use GNOME from guix upon other distros?
