Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ninja.

2015-01-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > 宋文武 skribis: > >> * gnu/packages/ninja.scm: New file. >> * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it. > > [...] > >> + 'check >> + (lambda _ >> +(and (zero? (system "./configure.py")) >> + (zero? (system "./ni

Scripts to build a Hurd distro

2015-01-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
We might be able to learn something from this. Scripts to build a standalone GNU/Hurd system (using dmd!) starting from Fedora. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-01/msg00027.html Mark

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-13 Thread Federico Beffa
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Federico Beffa skribis: > >> The question is: do we want to make a 'cc' symlink to 'gcc' in the >> 'gcc' package? > > So far we’ve resisted the temptation, and it’s rarely been an issue. > :-) Could you elaborate on the down sides? (I'm n

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > The question is: do we want to make a 'cc' symlink to 'gcc' in the > 'gcc' package? So far we’ve resisted the temptation, and it’s rarely been an issue. :-) > From 355bae94512391434bb6c7e14e8632451654380b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Federico Beffa > Date: Tue, 13

Re: Optional runtime dependencies in Guix

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Gammel Holte skribis: > I disagree here. I have very functional Arch & Gentoo installs with no > scripting language other than Perl, which is a dependency of many GNU tools. > > In particular I'm doing just fine without Python. Installing everything by > default is a bit suboptimal from a securit

Re: Optional runtime dependencies in Guix

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> To begin with, we could have a “weechat” package with a “reasonable” >> option set: >> (define weechat >> (make-weechat "weechat")) >> >> And possibly another variant with, say, all the options enab

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-13 Thread Federico Beffa
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I've created a branch named wip-gobject-introspection with the patch >> and version 1.42.0. I've also pushed version updates for pango and >> gdk-pixbuf compatible with the former. [...] > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> I went down this r

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-13 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 11:03:48 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to package the droid font family. It appears to be available > only via the android git at: >https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+ > /android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts/ > where >https://andr

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > It looks like: >--depth=1 --single-branch > could be useful parameters for "git clone". Yes, that’s what came to mind. If it happens to be useful, we could extend ‘git-reference’ with a list of extra parameters to pass to ‘git’. Ludo’.

Re: New year, new name!

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Commit 35ed930 introduces “Guixotic” in a few places of the manual. I’ve also updated the web page. Thanks for all your feedback! Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 1/4] guix: build/glib-or-gtk-build-system: Add support for GIO and XDG theming.

2015-01-13 Thread Federico Beffa
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Federico, > > Your commit 61771a7 seems to have broken the 'transmission' build. See: > > http://hydra.gnu.org/build/199802/log/tail-reload > > Specifically, the problem seems to be that 'generate-icon-cache' (a new > procedure that sh