Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-07 Thread Miguel Arruga Vivas
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > Miguel Arruga Vivas writes: > Boot and login worked properly for me after I cleared the contents of > my /var/lib/gdm directory (if it's unclear why that directory > matters, see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00421.html > for a quick ov

Re: Move r-{desolve, quadprog, pracma, subplex} from maths.scm to cran.scm

2019-11-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 16:37, zimoun wrote: > >> The packages r-desolve, r-quadprog, r-subplex and r-pracma are defined >> in `maths.scm`. They come from the CRAN archive. For consistency, they >> should be defined in the file `cran.scm`. Do you agree to move them? > > What ha

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread sirgazil
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:52:25 -0500 Christopher Baines wrote > > sirgazil writes: > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:19:42 -0500 Christopher Baines > > wrote [...] > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > in the current blog, ta

Re: Packaging Jami progress

2019-11-07 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2019-11-07, o godz. 20:02:08 Pierre Neidhardt napisał(a): > Hi Jan, > > Here is a quick 'n' dirty restinio package: Cool, thanks! > > The CMakeLists are a bit convoluted, so I simply skipped the root one > and when straight into the restinio subfolder. > > I'm too lazy to figure out how t

Re: Clang c++ include path

2019-11-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Mark, > >> variable name. The reason is that IceCat depends on Rust which depends >> on Clang, and there is a chain of *18* Rust compilers that must be built >> before IceCat can be built. On my system, compiling all of those Rust >> compilers requires

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
sirgazil writes: > On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:19:42 -0500 Christopher Baines > wrote > > > Hey, > > > > So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or > > twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. > > > > You can see it here: http://protot

Re: Packaging Jami progress

2019-11-07 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2019-11-07, o godz. 20:10:01 Pierre Neidhardt napisał(a): > Jan, can you resend the your patch set, I think you forgot a commit. > The first patch does not apply, in particular this hunk: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > ;; Things we do

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or >> twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. >> >> You can see it here: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/ > > I think this is great!

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
zimoun writes: > To complement, some monthly information about debbugs should be nice > too; maybe provided by Mumi. > Some time ago [1] Pjotr proposed something like: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Summary > > Status > 31 Outstanding >

Re: Move r-{desolve, quadprog, pracma, subplex} from maths.scm to cran.scm

2019-11-07 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 16:37, zimoun wrote: > The packages r-desolve, r-quadprog, r-subplex and r-pracma are defined > in `maths.scm`. They come from the CRAN archive. For consistency, they > should be defined in the file `cran.scm`. Do you agree to move them? What happens to the Copyright?

Re: Clang c++ include path

2019-11-07 Thread Carl Dong
> On Nov 7, 2019, at 11:29 AM, Danny Milosavljevic > wrote: > > Are you sure that Rust depends on clang? gnu/packages/rust.scm doesn't have > any > direct reference to "clang" except to remove it. Rust doesn’t depend on clang, it does, however, depend on llvm

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +, Christopher Baines wrote: >> > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the >> > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but >> > I would like a search function because one keeps clic

Re: Clang c++ include path

2019-11-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> I think that the situation with Rust in that we need to build 18 compilers > is regrettable--I hope that thepowersgang's mrustc can eventually be used > to leapfrog that (it's still active--AND v0.9 has been released) mrustc 0.9 supports bootstrapping Rust 1.29.0. pgpLIAPJtJBi8.pgp Descriptio

Re: Clang c++ include path

2019-11-07 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, > variable name. The reason is that IceCat depends on Rust which depends > on Clang, and there is a chain of *18* Rust compilers that must be built > before IceCat can be built. On my system, compiling all of those Rust > compilers requires approximately *90 hours* of continuous compili

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > I agree this is an important use case. It seems to me that the problem > here is being able to aggregate more than just packages. Yes, it's a bit more than that. We'd probably have to look at a couple of use cases to see what the most general content would be. > The Web application e

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Simon, >> I can of course share a manifest file by putting it in a public >> repository. But that isn't necessarily the best way. > > From my opinion, it is not the problem of Guix. Guix should not force > a practise, as good it should be. The way the users share manifests is > the problem of u

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 17:42, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> - A Scheme function to create a manifest for the necessary inputs of a > >>> package, like =guix environment PACKAGE= does. (Maybe it's already > >>> possible?) > >> > >> Like ‘specifications->manifest’? > > > > Can specifica

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Konrad Hinsen writes: > This does open some interesting possibilities, such as experts defining > personalized system configurations which are then easy to install for > anyone. Although I am not terribly fond of the idea of typing URLs into > an installer. This should not be an issue once we ha

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > By the way, the same should be possible from the installer: > > - Specify which channels you want to use. > - Specify which config.scm you want to use. Indeed, the config.scm > might rely on channels. > > This way, the Guix installation process would boil down to the

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > I think having ephemeral + persistent and declarative + imperative is > cool—I’d call that “flexible” rather than “messy”. :-) I agree. What's messy is how the concepts map to commands. How many Guix users understand that profiles are persistent environments, or environments ephemeral