Re: (Really) Free Software future in the light of systemd

2019-12-14 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Please forgive my delay. Regarding HyperbolaBSD: We do list non-GNU free distros in

Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-14 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, > 4. if neither ad-hoc nor inputs-of present then > a. if GUIX_ENVIRONMENT_DEPRECATED is 1: do the current behaviour, > b. if GUIX_ENVIRONMENT_DEPRECATED is undefined, or is not 1: do the > new behaviour. One remark: I suggest the test to be "set to a non-empty string" resp. "unset or emp

Re: Guix mirror: sourceware discussion report

2019-12-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > Well, how many people have a physical access to the MDC infrastructure? > How many people are currently working for the MDC institute? > To my knowledge, only Ricardo. > So what will happen if Ricardo "leaves" (long vacation, change of job, > bus attack, etc.). Mădălin also ha

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

2019-12-14 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 11.12.19 um 21:25 schrieb Mikhail Kryshen: > So the correct way to extend XDG_DATA_DIRS would be > > export > XDG_DATA_DIRS="${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}:/gnu/store/…-kate-…" I'm quite confident, adding /usr/share etc. here as default would be wrong from a guix point of vi

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > Well, thirdly I also think that Guix lacks tools to navigate in its > Git history. Now we have "guix time-machine", it appears to me that > finding specific package back in the history is complicated (basically > git checkout+git log+grepouch! not user-friendly). I think that

Re: Guix mirror: sourceware discussion report

2019-12-14 Thread zimoun
Hi Tobias, On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 19:39, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > I've replied on IRC as well, apologies if I repeat myself. :-) It is hard to follow everything that is said on IRC. ;-) And times to times, IMO, it is necessary to report back on guix-devel what was said: the community is

TeX Live 2019 wanted

2019-12-14 Thread Marius Bakke
Greetings Guix, The latest version of the popular Poppler PDF library (slated for the 'core-updates' branch) unsurprisingly[0][1][2] breaks 'texlive-bin'. Previously we were able to rely on the work of other distributions, but most have moved on to 2019 by now. And the required changes now are m

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-14 Thread Arun Isaac
> I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet "Next > Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has been > accepted! Great, congratulations! :-) > 1. Parameterized packages >(Previous discussion: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg0028

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-14 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, Congrats! On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 15:49, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > 2. File search >(Previous discussion: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00236.html) Yes, it is really lacking. For example, if one wants to use the 'hg' control version system, then one

Re: Cross-compilation broken on canonical packages.

2019-12-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Small mistake sorry. This fails: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix build --target=aarch64-linux-gnu -e "((@ (gnu packages base) canonical-package) (@ (gnu packages base) grep))" --8<---cut here---end--->8--- while this su

Cross-compilation broken on canonical packages.

2019-12-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, This command fails: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix build -e "((@ (gnu packages base) canonical-package) (@ (gnu packages base) grep))" --8<---cut here---end--->8--- with this output: --8<---cut her

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pjotr Prins writes: > That is great news Pierre :) Indeed! Happy times! :D -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature