Hello, Steve George <st...@futurile.net> writes:
> -- >8 -- >8 > > * %system_packages: packages required to boot and install a minimal Guix > System > or install Guix on a foreign distribution. This only includes default > options **required** by the installer which **must** work for a release > since > they are part of the default installer path. For example, this would > include > the guix daemon, kernels, boot loaders, file-systems and minimal utilities. > * %desktop_packages: additional desktop environments and other options from > the installer. This includes packages that are part of the installer > (but not default) and other popular options as chosen by the Release Team. > Packages **should** work, but they may receive less QA attention from the > Release Team than %system_packages. > * %base_packages: important packages that anyone may wish to install on Guix > and > consequently the project wants to maintain substitutes for. This may include > important toolchains, runtimes and utilities. The Release Team **may** > perform QA on these packages. > > Guix would still make all packages and services part of a release (the entire > archive). Guix teams would be asked to test the parts of the archive that > they > look after. But, only Release Critical bugs in the `package sets` could block > a release. > > The Release Team may identify other package sets as needed. > > -- >8 -- >8 These are supposed to be the names of variables used in ‘etc/manifests/release.scm’? Maybe we can omit the variable names after all? What matters here is the description of each one, which LGTM: things that must work, should work, and have substitutes available. Thanks, Ludo’.
