Re: should gnome-desktop-service really provide all of this to a profile?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> I installed gnome using
>
>   guix package --profile=/tmp/foo-profile -i gnome
>
> There is a lot of stuff there.  If gnome-desktop-service extends
> profile-service-type with gnome, will that not "pollute" a lot of
> profiles?  Attached is a listing of that profile.

Good point, this sounds undesirable (and shows that some packages would
benefit from separate outputs—e.g., “doc” output for xcb.)

What exactly is required?  Would it work to change the ‘gnome’
meta-package to union only the bin/ sub-directories instead of
everything?

Ludo’.