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Re: Feedback from JRES in Dijon

Hi Ludo, >> I am working on an article (ultimately for "Computing in Science and >> Engineering") that takes up some of those subjects and illustrates them >> using Guix. It would be nice to get feedback from the Guix community >> early, to make sure I don't do something stupid. So I could do a fi

Checking in, and an announcement!

Hello all! At risk of being lampooned by RMS if he is reading this mailing list, my wife and I had our first baby delivered last evening! We are very excited, and quite exhausted. I just wanted to thank you all who have reached out to me over Email, IRC, and Telegram. I _have_ received your

Re: qt-build-system: prefix or suffix env-variables in wrap-program

Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > it came to my mind that currently the qt-build-system wraps the program > without passing along any environment variables. Thus e.g. > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS will be overwritten, instead of not extended. Furtunatly > ((guix build utils) wrap-program) supports prefixing o

Just found you

Good day I was emailing Richard Stallman and had a look at Gnu website, found Guix. I am a software developer, retired, and now working as a humanitarian in the field of software Development. I have my own Linux distribution based on Debian, Ubuntu and Mint, and my own programming language - Jade

Re: Packaging Jami progress

Okay, thanks. I'll use the second way then. I could also create a new file - jami-utils.scm and use it as a module, but a file containing only one procedure isn't good either. On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:43:58 -0600 Caleb Ristvedt wrote: > Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > > > I tried both ways - the secon

wrap-program –> wrap-script

Hi Guix, I’ve just pushed a change to use wrap-script in one package. The purpose of wrap-script is to wrap an executable without having to create a separate wrapper shell script. It does this by prepending a Guile script to the top of the file, which sets the environment variables and then re-e

RE: guix gc doesn't seem to clean old guix revision

> Hi Yoann, Hi Ludo, > I had not understood that.  I guess the patch below fixes it, I’ll push > t shortly. > Thanks, > Ludo’. Look great, but IMO, your addition, "(passwd:name (getpwuid (getuid", should be the only way to get the username since $USER and $LOGNAME could be overridden or uns

qt-build-system: prefix or suffix env-variables in wrap-program

Hi, it came to my mind that currently the qt-build-system wraps the program without passing along any environment variables. Thus e.g. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS will be overwritten, instead of not extended. Furtunatly ((guix build utils) wrap-program) supports prefixing or suffixing an existing variable val