install: Run GPM.

Suggested by Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00133.html>.

* gnu/system/install.scm (installation-services): Add call to
  'gpm-service'.
* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Mention GPM.
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Ludovic Courtès 2015-11-07 18:48:21 +01:00
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@ -5286,7 +5286,9 @@ Once you have successfully booted the image on the USB stick, you should
end up with a root prompt. Several console TTYs are configured and can
be used to run commands as root. TTY2 shows this documentation,
browsable using the Info reader commands (@pxref{Help,,, info, Info: An
Introduction}).
Introduction}). The installation system runs the GPM mouse daemon,
which allows you to select text with the left mouse button and to paste
it with the middle button.
To install the system, you would:

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@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ You have been warned. Thanks for being so brave.
(console-font-service "tty5")
(console-font-service "tty6")
;; To facilitate copy/paste.
(gpm-service)
;; Since this is running on a USB stick with a unionfs as the root
;; file system, use an appropriate cache configuration.
(nscd-service (nscd-configuration