Re: Please don't leave GNU

2025-03-30 Thread Cayetano Santos
>dim. 30 mars 2025 at 20:51, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> wrote: > I decided to use Archlinux for comparison (Alpine seemed unfair ^_^). I > am not sure how to do `guix size' with pacman, You may have a look here, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks section 1.1.3 signa

Re: Please don't leave GNU

2025-03-30 Thread Tomas Volf
Hi, responding to just few points. "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: >> Guix has several drawbacks that, while trivial, make it worse than >> Fedora Silverblue: >> >> * Guix asks for my LUKS password twice > > Not sure of the current situation, but this was because GNU GRUB lacked > support

Re: Please don't leave GNU

2025-03-30 Thread Divya Ranjan
Hello Florian, The discussion has happened in guix-devel before. The one when I participated was last year[0], and there was also discussion of this in the last Guix Days[1]. [0]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-12/msg00141.html [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gui

Re: Please don't leave GNU

2025-03-30 Thread indieterminacy
Hello Caleb, Some people wear their values on their chests and others in their hearts. The active members in the Guix community live and breath the GNU spirit and release coding using such licenses. I am not aware of any momentum regarding Guix using non GNU licenses, so Im not sure why you

Re: Applying Patches for Review

2025-03-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 04:10:29PM +0100 schrieb Noé Lopez: > Another way I know of is to download the mailbox from the issue’s > debbugs page and apply it with “git am”. Or from issues.guix.gnu.org. There is a download symbol next to each message. You should click on the full message (the symbol

Please don't leave GNU

2025-03-30 Thread Caleb Herbert
Hi Guix, I use Guix primarily because of its commitment to user freedom and its united front with the GNU Project. If Guix were just another distro, I'd much rather use Fedora Silverblue than Guix. I use Guix, despite its faults, because it is GNU. Guix has several drawbacks that, while tri