Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2023-01-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi, just a quick comment zimoun writes: [...] > Moreover, many channels would be dependant from one to the other. and this would be **a nightmare** to maintain (as already clearly stated by others much more competent than me in Guix-things) to recap: all PROS that you jgart mentioned in his

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2023-01-03 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 03:49, "jgart" wrote: > Users could then decide what channels they'd like to subscribe to/opt > in to by adding any of the following channels as they please: > > python-channel > rust-channel [...] > etc... > > The above channels would still be maintained under the au

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-28 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:49:30 + "jgart" wrote: > Hi Guixers, Hi, > Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? I think it would also make sense to consider first find the features we want, and then look at how to get them, to see if that works better for us. For instance if

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 24.12.22 um 04:49 schrieb jgart: Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? No. As others already stated, this would complicate things for users. Having all available software at on place is a big plus. (For many GNU/Linux distros you need to add another ppa for many „sta

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels, X-mas and Guix days!

2022-12-25 Thread jgart
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Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels, X-mas and Guix days!

2022-12-25 Thread indieterminacy
On 24-12-2022 09:37, Pjotr Prins wrote: tis like packages under a X-mas tree guix xmas add games guix xmas add tex guix xmas add paint guix xmas add payamas I just guix pulled version 1.4 out of a cracker. That will make for a happy new year Thanks all! Happy holidays everybody! Jonathan

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2022-12-24, jgart wrote: >> I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a >> thought experiment at this stage. >> >> Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? >> >> For example, GNU Guix would be a core channel containing the

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-24 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi jgart, IMO, having everything in one repo, while going against the "modularity" philosophy, really helps a lot when updating packages. In my experience with the Other Channel That We Should Not Talk About, there often are breaking changes in the main repository that lead to the other channel b

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-24 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Samstag, dem 24.12.2022 um 03:49 + schrieb jgart: > Hi Guixers, > > I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a > thought experiment at this stage. > > Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? No, it should be a functional operating system. > Wha

Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels, X-mas and Guix days!

2022-12-24 Thread Pjotr Prins
tis like packages under a X-mas tree guix xmas add games guix xmas add tex guix xmas add paint guix xmas add payamas unlike debian these packages contain packages that can overlap too! that would be interesting. happy holidays Guix and thank you community! Hope to see you all at Guix days in Br

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread jgart
I think we also need a channel manager subcommand: guix channel add python guix channel add rust guix channel add gaming guix channel add rde guix channel add guixrus guix channel add non etc. The above commands would subscribe you to a given trusted Guix channel. The last three are channels

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-12-24, jgart wrote: > I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a > thought experiment at this stage. > > Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? > > For example, GNU Guix would be a core channel containing the reduced > binary seed bootstrap and

Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a thought experiment at this stage. Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? For example, GNU Guix would be a core channel containing the reduced binary seed bootstrap and a few other core packages