Hello! Congrats, Pierre! That’s really great news!
Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> skribis: >> 1. Parameterized packages >> (Previous discussion: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg00285.html) > > I've been looking for something like this. I want to run a more minimal > system like I used to with Parabola GNU/Linux. I often find Guix's > packages to be too heavy and hard to modify without a lot of > effort. Package inheritance is itself easy to accomplish with Guile code > but getting the modified package to build successfully is sometimes > difficult. It would certainly help if Guix had pre-parameterized > packages that one could modify easily. However, this can enormously > increase the burden on Guix packagers. However, we can discuss that > later when we have more specific proposals. Yes, I’m very much on the same line of thought: it sounds both exciting from a user viewpoint (colleagues of mine in HPC would love it) and scary from a maintainer viewpoint (the configuration space could explode, how do we ensure we ship packages that actually work?). Let’s see! >> 2. File search >> (Previous discussion: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00236.html) > > This feature would be very nice too. Currently, I fall back to one of my > Parabola GNU/Linux installations, and run pkgfile there to get an > approximate idea of what Guix package a certain file might be in. That’d be great to have. Thanks, Ludo’.
