Re: ‘core-updates’ freeze approaching!

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:02:08PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92027 > > The segfault and the valgrind issue happen in different files, so they > do not seem to be related. [...] > I also tried to cd into /tmp/nix-build

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
Package descriptions I follow are the same as those by the software developers. If people care about jargon feel free to fix it. I am happy with the original descriptions from the software authors. Spelling it out won't help any users. Personally I don't see why we have to stop this patch. Pj.

Re: New Install

2015-09-18 Thread Richard
> From: Andy Wingo > It is, if you want to share /home but not not /etc, /var, and so on. Sharing was never of interest - I just wanted to have the safety net of having another bootable OS. In the end I have decided to wipe Slackware and completely embrace the GNU... That leads to another q

Re: [PATCH] New procedure for CRAN URIs.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > From 702458583776bd28c865ffdf06977262b3901ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ricardo Wurmus > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:00:18 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] build: Add cran-uri procedure. > > * guix/build-system/r.scm (cran-uri): New procedure. Sounds like a good idea.

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Add commands to show/hide build log phases.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > From f4fad1ab1c78a84ac3b2fdedba4850c5e589ce0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Kost > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:27:44 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] emacs: Add commands to show/hide build log phases. > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Tran

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Replace 'guix-any' with 'cl-some'.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > From 0ca666e091735c82a5f197b43bd2317c2b2e4b84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Kost > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:36:23 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] emacs: Replace 'guix-any' with 'cl-some'. > > * emacs/guix-utils.el (guix-any): Remove. > * emacs/guix-command.el (guix-command

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > Package descriptions I follow are the same as those by the software > developers. If people care about jargon feel free to fix it. > > I am happy with the original descriptions from the software authors. > Spelling it out won't help any users. It will. I tried to spell ou

Re: [PATCH] New procedure for CRAN URIs.

2015-09-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> * guix/build-system/r.scm (cran-uri): New procedure. > > Sounds like a good idea. > > You might as well come up with ‘cran-origin’: > > (define (cran-origin package version) > (origin > (method url-fetch) > …)) > > WDYT? I wouldn’t know how to deal w

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
I asked the author. His response is: Titles are meant to be short, so that they can be scanned easily. If someone doesn't know what it means, it's not going to be of interest anyway. The synopsis is followed immediately by the description, which seems perfectly fine to me. though perhaps it co

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Titles are meant to be short, so that they can be scanned easily. If someone > doesn't know what it means, it's not > going to be of interest anyway. That is not true: Until recently I did not know what mtp is (and I still do not rea

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
Well, unless someone comes up with a 'proper' description I don't think we'll get anywhere. Tell me what you want to see. We can't explain the whole field of genetics in one line. Pj. On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 04:08:54PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Pjotr

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:15:01PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Well, unless someone comes up with a 'proper' description I don't > think we'll get anywhere. Tell me what you want to see. We can't > explain the whole field of genetics in one line. Well, I think the package author is the most quali

Re: [PATCH 6/7] guix build: Add 'build-package'.

2015-09-18 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-08 23:10 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: [...] >> From 9ffc27f7a076e4213ef3bee00e5cebad501685ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Alex Kost >> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:16:41 +0300 >> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] guix build: Add 'build-package'. >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Conten

Re: [PATCH] Add (guix scripts).

2015-09-18 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-16 23:21 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> From b5484f43c429e283284033f4adb6097034a60418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Alex Kost >> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:37:36 +0300 >> Subject: [PATCH] Add (guix scripts). [...] > Also add guix/scripts.scm to po/guix/POTFIL

Re: Dealing with common collisions in profiles

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > How do we disable the message? We don’t, that’s the problem. :-) The idea initially was that users may want to know when a collision happens, because that’s usually a bad sign. Nowadays, we indeed get way too many of them. The point of my message was that we should add

Re: New Install

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Richard skribis: >> From: Andy Wingo >> It is, if you want to share /home but not not /etc, /var, and so on. > > Sharing was never of interest - I just wanted to have the safety net of > having another bootable OS. In the end I have decided to wipe Slackware > and completely embrace the GNU.

[PATCH] Add MARS shooter.

2015-09-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, attached is a patch to add MARS. This is really a fun game and you can play it with a friend on the same machine. I could not get sound to work, unfortunately, because /dev/dsp does not exist on my machine. It’s not a problem with the package, but maybe someone could give me a hint abo

Re: [PATCH] New procedure for CRAN URIs.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> * guix/build-system/r.scm (cran-uri): New procedure. >> >> Sounds like a good idea. >> >> You might as well come up with ‘cran-origin’: >> >> (define (cran-origin package version) >> (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> …)) >>

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ifstatus.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Stefan Reichör skribis: > From d94bf0b05b3ccffc3a03e06586f8fa43d8dacc23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Stefan Reichoer > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:39:49 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add ifstatus. > > * gnu/packages/networking.scm (ifstatus): New variable. [...] > + '(substitute* "Main.h

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ifstatus.

2015-09-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Stefan Reichör skribis: > +(license license:bsd-2))) I had overlooked that but it’s actually GPL version 2 or any later version, so I changed it to ‘gpl2+’. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

2015-09-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
I checked with the author and he is fine with your version. Personally I think it is clear from the name that it is an R package, so that may be superfluous. But then, who knows R ;) Pj. On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:15:01PM +0200, P

gnu: guile: Add guile-wisp

2015-09-18 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello! I've added guile-wisp here. There's no "make install" and a few of the commands are hardcoded in the autoconf stuff, but I've patched it up. So here's the funny thing: it works just fine if you just use guix to install the library and use a system guile from elsewhere: scheme@(guile-us