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Re: %desktop-services


From: David Thompson
Subject: Re: %desktop-services
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 18:10:09 -0400
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> I thought it would be helpful to have a ‘%desktop-services’ variable
> that would provide the things most “desktop” users typically want in
> addition to what ‘%base-services’ provides.  See attached patch.
>
> Someone using ‘%desktop-services’ still need to add, say, Xfce to the
> declaration’s ‘packages’ field, but that’s already an improvement.  We
> could have ‘%desktop-packages’, but I’d rather not choose a specific DE
> or WM to put in there.
>
> Thoughts?

Looks great!  Less work for the user.

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