Re: A couple roadblocks using guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> 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’.