Hi Felix,
Thanks for the response!
On 25/12/2022 04:29, Felix Lechner wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Paul Jewell via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
I want to use the same configuration file under guix.
Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains
it can't find package "ql".
I have used StumpWM with simple configurations. I used only CL modules
that were declared as prerequisites to StumpWM as it is packaged in
Guix.
I have now added the relevant quicklisp packages via guix in my system
configuration file, and they are all loading correctly. I am still
getting an error with SB-CLTL2 which didn't go away when I added
sbcl-trivial-cltl2 to my configuration - I am still looking for this
solution (i.e. - trying to identify which package I need to add to
satisfy this requirement!).
StumpWM probably cannot see the Quicklisp packages you installed in
your home directory (and maybe also not those in your home profile)
because Guix generally uses absolute paths to make prerequisites
available to software like StumpWM.
That makes sense.
It means you may have to jump through some hoops to use additional
prerequisites in a configuration that is loaded dynamically. In the
past, I have provided updated package definitions to myself for that
purpose. This is an area with which I am not very familiar, but the
restrictions you are experiencing make sense to me and also match my
own experience.
I am keen to get my guix system into a state where I can adopt it fully
on my laptop. I find the documentation quite terse though when it comes
to explaining how guix does things. As a reference, I have no
complaints, but when you start off I find it explains how to do
something (often with several variants), but not why. Starting with
someone else's configuration initially was probably more of a hindrance
than a help, but I am past that now.
Once I get everything as I like it, I think I will make a patch to fill
out the stumpwm section in the cookbook so others can find their way in
more easily.
Best regards,
Paul
