Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Hello again Miguel, I apologize for the delay. My semester at university is becoming busier as final exams get closer! On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 01:58 +0100, Miguel Arruga Vivas wrote: > Hi Kei, ... > > > - The patch for gedit contains a reference to libgd, wouldn't it > > > be > > >clearer for

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi David, "Thompson, David" writes: > I believe this is incorrect and I will explain why. This exact > circumstance was brought up in the early days of the Guix project when > FSDG compliance was a big topic of discussion because Ludovic and RMS > were making sure that Guix conformed to it. It

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread Thompson, David
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > I completely agree with you. The way you explained, does show that Guix > comply with FSDG. The thing is, the semantics used in current version > of FSDG does not explain things well. That's why I pointed out that > FSDG require revision,

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello David! > I believe this is incorrect and I will explain why. This exact > circumstance was brought up in the early days of the Guix project > when > FSDG compliance was a big topic of discussion because Ludovic and RMS > were making sure that Guix conformed to it. It is true that Guix > wi

Re: Guix in Docker for automated CD/CI of complex software

2019-11-22 Thread Vicente Eduardo
I don't want to create a docker image of my software from guix, I want to run guix inside docker in order to have a portable installation of guix for common ci/cd enviroments. Here's the metacall schema: https://github.com/metacall/distributable/blob/53caad582cd097c5e92798bf0ec16660bfc4030c/source

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread Thompson, David
Hi, just a quick note to begin: Please do not cross-post to multiple mailing lists because it tends to cause confusion for everyone reading those lists. I have included only guix-devel in the CC list for this reply. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:02 AM Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > (b) Facilitation of

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

2019-11-22 Thread zimoun
Hi Ricardo, Thank you for your inputs. On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 15:47, Ricardo Wurmus 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 a

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread ng0
Hi, I'm sorry for my last reply. At least it makes sense to get the definition right this time as this is a reoccuring topic. So whatever comes out of this should hopefully be enough to write about it. What threw me off was yet another email which CC'd many lists plus one individual person.

Re: Guix and FSDG

2019-11-22 Thread ng0
> Therefore, Guix DOES violate FSDG in this aspect. If you search the mailinglist archives you can see that you are not the first to try and roll up this argument. Ludovic, Ricardo or any of the other Guix maintainers will probably answer more in detail, but my short reply is that we've had this d

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

2019-11-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi simon, > 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? I think moving them to cran.scm is fine. In my opinion both of thes

Re: Guix in Docker for automated CD/CI of complex software

2019-11-22 Thread zimoun
Dear, Thank you for pointing this interesting project. On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 15:23, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 21.11.19 um 15:41 schrieb Vicente Eduardo: > > In order to achieve this I have developed a Docker image of Guix > > (https://github.com/metacall/guix) based on Alpine Linux. I work a

Re: Guix in Docker for automated CD/CI of complex software

2019-11-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, Am 21.11.19 um 15:41 schrieb Vicente Eduardo: > In order to achieve this I have developed a Docker image of Guix > (https://github.com/metacall/guix) based on Alpine Linux. I work a lot I'm curious: Why are you not just using `guix system |docker-image` to create the docker image directly? |

Re: Tutorial: Running XFCE from Guix on a foreign distribution

2019-11-22 Thread zimoun
Hi Marius, On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 20:09, Marius Bakke wrote: > Did you use a different user account? No, same user account. > Do the system logs contain any information about why it crashed? In > particular /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it exists. I see nothing which seems relevant. Because I do n

Re: Propagate inputs with a specific output only?

2019-11-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi Danny, > I think it's > (propagated-inputs > `(("foo" ,bar "baz"))) > > but I can't remember exactly. This is for specifying another packages other output. Maybe I should have added an example: pdfposter:out -> propagates python-pypdf2 pdfposter:gui -> propagates qtbase, qtpolller, et. --

Re: Propagate inputs with a specific output only?

2019-11-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Hartmut, On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:32:14 +0100 Hartmut Goebel wrote: > I have a package, written in Python, which consists of a command line > tool and a GUI. Since the GUI requires Qt, I would like to create two > outputs: "out", and "gui". Thus one could install the command line tool > without