Magit is painfully slow

2018-12-28 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi all, I am having the weirdest issue with the Guix repository cloned from Savannah. Before compiling, Magit is very efficient and opens in no time at all. However, after compiling and generating several .po and .texi files Magit takes almost a whole minute to open. I can clean the repository and

Re: Missing fonts issue with GNU Icecat

2018-12-28 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 14:43:23 +0100, Daniel Gerber wrote: > Resolved by applying this advice (which is output when running `guix package > -i pango` explicitly, but not when pango is installed as a dependency -- or > I missed it): > > ``` > The following environment variable definitions may be n

Re: Missing fonts issue with GNU Icecat

2018-12-28 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 16:07:12 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> ``` >> The following environment variable definitions may be needed: >> export >> XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS" >> export >> GIO_EXTRA_MODULES="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gio/modules${GIO_

Re: Missing fonts issue with GNU Icecat

2018-12-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Daniel, > Resolved by applying this advice (which is output when running `guix > package -i pango` explicitly, but not when pango is installed as a > dependency -- or I missed it): > > ``` > The following environment variable definitions may be needed: > export > XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-

Re: Moving general useful procedures to the utils-modules

2018-12-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
swedebugia writes: > I found this in guix/build/cargo-build-system.scm: > > (define (touch file-name) > (call-with-output-file file-name (const #t))) > > I think we should move useful ones like this to (build utils) and > consider merging (build utils) and (import utils) into a single > utils