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[bug#34470] [PATCH 4/8] gnu: gdm: Use absolute path for gnome-session.
From: |
Timothy Sample |
Subject: |
[bug#34470] [PATCH 4/8] gnu: gdm: Use absolute path for gnome-session. |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:13:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Timothy Sample <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gdm)[arguments]: Modify the pre-configure
>> phase to substitute in the absolute path of gnome-session.
>> [inputs]: Add gnome-session.
>
> This patch means that we’re pulling in GNOME even when we don’t actually
> need it:
>
> $ guix size gdm |tail -1
> total: 909.4 MiB
> $ guix size gdm gnome-session |tail -1
> total: 1011.8 MiB
>
> Do you think we could avoid that?
My understanding is that the login screen is more or less a normal user
session brought up by gnome-session for the “gdm” user. Shy of
re-implementing the parts of gnome-session we need, I don’t have any
ideas on how to avoid this dependency. I know that GDM sends it a list
of components to initialize (e.g., GNOME Shell), but I don’t know what
else it does for GDM.
My guess is that it would be possible to trim down some of these
packages to recover the space. GDM is very heavy-weight software, but
1G seems like a lot.
:(
-- Tim
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 0/8] GDM without GNOME Desktop, Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 7/8] services: gdm: Make dependencies explicit., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 8/8] services: gdm: Allow for custom X session scripts., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 6/8] gnu: gdm: Run dbus-daemon via a wrapper script., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 4/8] gnu: gdm: Use absolute path for gnome-session., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 3/8] gnu: gdm: Add links to required login-session files., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 5/8] gnu: gdm: Simplify pre-configure phase., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 2/8] gnu: gnome-session: Use absolute paths in .desktop files., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 1/8] services: gdm: Remove etc service., Timothy Sample, 2019/02/13
- [bug#34470] [PATCH 0/8] GDM without GNOME Desktop, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/02/16