[Nix-dev] Merging the modular-nixos branch

[Tony White]

2009/8/4 Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru>:
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> Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>>> First of all, you have changed the argument set.
>>
>> What do you mean by this?  configuration.nix *can* take arguments now, but it's
>> not required.
>
> Well, I had random problems with pkgs not being what I thought it would
> be.. Required files have no such problems, though.
>
>>>> BTW, I'm in favour of making KDE 4 the default desktop manager.
>>> I don't care as long as X server job is simple to parse by xlaunch. Can
>>> KDE4 be considered a release now? KDE 4.0 was nearly officially an alpha..
>> KDE 4.2 is considered stable (and actually is stable most of the time ;-)  I'm
>> also fine with KDE 3 as the default - anything better than a bare xterm as
>> desktop manager.
>
> "Anything better" is called IceWM - it is both light and easy to get
> accustomed to. KDE seems a bit heavy for rescue CDs, for example.
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Although the site is down right now http://www.lxde.org/ lxde, would
be a much better choice than IceWM as a default IMO. It works very
well on Mandriva Linux and they use it instead of IceWM as a fallback
desktop.

Thanks,
Tony