Subject: Re: [bug#40423] [PATCH] system: Split %BASE-PACKAGES in smaller parts.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:52:52 +0200

Hi,

Brice Waegeneire <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/system.scm: (%base-packages-interactive, %base-packages-linux,
> %base-packages-networking, %base-packages-utils): New variables.
> (%base-packages): Use those new variables.
> ---
>
> This patch split %base-packages to make it more reusable. We talked about it
> with John Soo on IRC[0] and on the ML[1].
>
> [0]: http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2020-03-18.log#152734
> [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00061.html

I had completely overlooked this proposal but I think it’s a good idea.
It’ll also be helpful for GNU/Hurd support: we’ll just have to drop the
%base-packages-linux.

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.