Re: Parameterized packages

2020-01-09 Thread Marius Bakke
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Any thought on this, anyone? Having used Gentoo for some years, I'm not sure a "global" parameter system is desirable. It could encourage enabling feature "foo", even for packages that have experimental or broken support for "foo". But I see how it could be useful to

Re: TeX Live 2019 wanted

2020-01-09 Thread Marius Bakke
Andreas Enge writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:41:57PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Errh, the patch only works if you already have Poppler 0.83.0. For the >> current 'core-updates' branch, I believe you can use the same approach >> but fetch poppler-0.76.0.cc instead (or take Arch's patch[0]

Re: Proposal for a blog contribution on reproducible computations

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad, Thank you! It is very interesting!! Below questions. And suggestions which I can Pull-Request with Github. :-) Hope it is readable: indented text is your text; non-indented one is question. Cheers, simon -- #+TITLE: Reproducible computations with Guix #+STARTUP: inlinei

Re: Scicloj web meeting about Guix-Jupyter today

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, Thank you! It was interesting. :-) Cheers, simon

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-09 Thread Jan
Don't know if this is a good place, but gnome-color-manager in this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=29ae18db0578bbdbc0119703f7412fe91927e80e has GPL2 license in the "license" field and the COPYING file also tells the license is GPL2, but if you check a random source fi

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 16:41, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > zimoun writes: > > >> The benefit of "/" is that it works _incidentally_. If you are looking > >> for "bin/hg", then `guix search bin/hg` will do the right thing. > > > > I agree. > > > > To be clear, to search the binary 'hg', I find clea

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 16:38, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > I am looking for the file gmsh.h and I do not know nothing more. > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > guix search /gmsh.h > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > > would work.

Re: Another update on the Guix Data Service

2020-01-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Channel news entries are recorded in the database, you can see all that >> are present in a revision [3], but the comparison page should show new >> news entries as well. >> >> 3: >> http://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/06c8e87224decebc0a3d5bdc7d2ca13cb2b08299/news > >

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> I think the Guix Data Service is a good fit since it knows about >> packages, derivations, commits, and how they map to each other. :-) It >> could download nars and do the equivalent of ‘guix archive -t’ to get >> the list of file names. > > Are you suggesting that

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zimoun writes: >> The benefit of "/" is that it works _incidentally_. If you are looking >> for "bin/hg", then `guix search bin/hg` will do the right thing. > > I agree. > > To be clear, to search the binary 'hg', I find clearer "guix search bin/hg". > However, to search any file which you do no

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zimoun writes: >> But for which benefit? It seems that this single example >> >> >> - guix search bin/gmsh gimp >> >> covers all your needs. > > No. > > For example: > >> >> - guix search file:gmsh.h gimp > > I am looking for the file gmsh.h and I do not know nothing more. --8<---

Re: Scicloj web meeting about Guix-Jupyter today

2020-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > I’ll be presenting Guix-Jupyter today in a web meeting of Scicloj, at > 3PM UTC (4PM CET): > > https://scicloj.github.io/pages/web_meetings/ > > This will be happening through Jitsi¹ (exact URL will be announced > later), which I found to work well with our ‘ungoogled

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 15:21, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Why don't you like it? You are like Haskellers or Perlers asking why ">>=" is not clear. :-) I do not find meaningful "/.*gmsh.h" to search the file named "gmsh.h". I find clearer "file:gmsh.h". Taste of cheese and wine... :-) > I don't l

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 15:14, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> > I agree that explicit keywords, e.g., "file:" and "package:", avoid > >> > confusion. > >> > >> I disagree. What about matching a path which contains "file:" or > >> "package:"? Then you end up with confusing commands. > > > > About "

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zimoun writes: > Hi Pierre, > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 14:01, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> >> zimoun writes: > >> >> To avoid confusion, I think this should be an option/subcommand of >> >> search. Something like -path and -name in find(1). >> > >> > I agree that explicit keywords, e.g., "file:" a

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
Hi again, :-) On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 13:55, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > What I originally suggested is that we could equivalently do: > > guix search "/foo.*bar" python- [...] > > Time to time, I am looking for header C file or latex style but I do > > not know the path. I would like to have so

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 14:01, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > zimoun writes: > >> To avoid confusion, I think this should be an option/subcommand of > >> search. Something like -path and -name in find(1). > > > > I agree that explicit keywords, e.g., "file:" and "package:", avoid > > con

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Yes! I don't think I'm alone in frustration over unnecessary packages > installed systemwide. :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zimoun writes: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 12:20, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> >> > … I agree. I think file search has to be a service providing access to >> > a fast database. >> >> Good point. Let's go in that direction then. > > But it should be possible to build this database locally without usi

Re: Package file indexing

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 12:20, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > … I agree. I think file search has to be a service providing access to > > a fast database. > > Good point. Let's go in that direction then. But it should be possible to build this database locally without using any network connection.

Re: Scicloj web meeting about Guix-Jupyter today

2020-01-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 09:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’ll be presenting Guix-Jupyter today in a web meeting of Scicloj, at > 3PM UTC (4PM CET): Cool! > This will be happening through Jitsi¹ (exact URL will be announced > later), which I found to work well with our ‘ungoogled-chromium

Re: Another update on the Guix Data Service

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi Christopher! Nice update as usual! A few questions: > Channel news entries are recorded in the database, you can see all that > are present in a revision [3], but the comparison page should show new > news entries as well. > > 3: > http://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/06c8e87224decebc0a3d5bdc7d

Looking for Mentor(s)

2020-01-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! For Outreachy's May-August 2020 round, I have proposed some ideas (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-01/msg00102.html). I am looking for folk(s) to be a mentor(s) for those topics. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you! Regards, Raghav Gururajan.

Scicloj web meeting about Guix-Jupyter today

2020-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I’ll be presenting Guix-Jupyter today in a web meeting of Scicloj, at 3PM UTC (4PM CET): https://scicloj.github.io/pages/web_meetings/ This will be happening through Jitsi¹ (exact URL will be announced later), which I found to work well with our ‘ungoogled-chromium’ package. Ludo’