On 2019-06-27 21:02, Alex Griffin wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019, at 4:31 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
What do *you* want Guix to address in the future?
* Guix System
** TODO add firewall-service to provide a configurable stateful firewall
suitable for most desktops and servers
+1
*** TODO add service-extensions to existing services so that firewall-service
can be added to %base-services without unnecessary breakage
** TODO use guile-bash to automatically update environment variables when the
current profile changes
** TODO support more partitioning and bootloader configurations (full disk
encryption without entering password twice, LVM support, os-prober, etc.)
*** TODO support secured boot from Heads/PureBoot
(https://docs.puri.sm/PureBoot.html)
** TODO easier loading of out-of-tree kernel modules
** TODO run-time configuration system for services, similar to OpenWrt's UCI
* Command Line Interface
** TODO refresh able to take a contributor name and find out-of-date packages
that they have contributed to
** TODO improved search: support AND terms instead of OR, configurable recfmt
template
** TODO package --show should allow multiple arguments and not require an equal
sign
+1
* Other
** TODO evaluate shepherd service definitions placed somewhere in
~/.guix-profile before evaluating ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm
** TODO support automatic GPG/signify signature verification of origin objects
** TODO better Node.js packaging and tooling
This seem to have gotten stuck. But I heard something about a
guile-semver and also we need to handle circular dependencies better in
guix to make it easier to discover and mitigate them.
Compared to the whole expat/JS community Guix is still a very small
project. The bootstrap problems will probably take years to complete
with the current pace/manpower/interest.
Maybe we should propose The GNU Project to create and seek funding for a
"fix JS (bootstrap)" campaign? Compilers will need to be written
according to Julien (like rustc).
*** TODO package important Icecat and Ungoogled-Chromium extensions. This is a
pain point because IceCat steers users away from Firefox Add-ons and
Ungoogled-Chromium completely disallows installing from Chrome Web Store.
Actually currently our Chrome does not support add-ons at all. See bug
#35709
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Cheers Swedebugia
