Re: Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread Tobias Platen
On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 19:43 -0800, John Soo wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I had the same thought as Maxim. In my quest for arm support for ghc, > I thought about using a cross-compiled version. Is this possible or > even desirable?  I think for rust and ghc it would be very helpful - > if somewhat less pr

Re: Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread John Soo
Hi Guix, I had the same thought as Maxim. In my quest for arm support for ghc, I thought about using a cross-compiled version. Is this possible or even desirable? I think for rust and ghc it would be very helpful - if somewhat less principled than a bootstrap all the way up (on the same compute

Re: Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello again, Maxim Cournoyer writes: [...] >> There is also the unpleasant option to introduce a rust binary for >> architectures other than x86_64, because we can’t bootstrap it >> there. It should be noted that this would not be unprecedented. We >> have bootstrap binaries for some compiler

Re: Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> As you may know, librsvg 2.50 on ‘core-updates-frozen’ depends on >> Rust. >> However mrustc, which we use to build the first Rust compiler, >> currently >> only works on x86_64. This means that ~28% of the packages on >> ‘core-updat

Re: Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: As you may know, librsvg 2.50 on ‘core-updates-frozen’ depends on Rust. However mrustc, which we use to build the first Rust compiler, currently only works on x86_64. This means that ~28% of the packages on ‘core-updates-frozen’ are x86_64-only (vs. ~15% on ‘master’

Desktops on non-x86_64 systems

2021-11-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! As you may know, librsvg 2.50 on ‘core-updates-frozen’ depends on Rust. However mrustc, which we use to build the first Rust compiler, currently only works on x86_64. This means that ~28% of the packages on ‘core-updates-frozen’ are x86_64-only (vs. ~15% on ‘master’). Among these, th

Re: ZFS part of Guix? RFC?

2021-11-27 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:34:55 -0800 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-11-26, Denis Carikli wrote: > > Or disable zfs as a dependency of Gnome? > > This specific point is a bit dated; the issue was both introduced and > shortly after reverted in early July: > > 61ccd756e5ff73b2f8dc3449df537f1c

Re: Guix packaging meetup: Saturday 27 November

2021-11-27 Thread Tobias Platen
I'm interested in joining that packaging meetup, since I have been using Guix for some years, and want to package some software that I have written and already packaged for Debian. Tobias Alexandra On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 22:01 +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Hi jgart, > > Thank you for the