Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix

Hi I stumpled upon this today: https://www.slant.co/topics/344/~best-linux-package-managers Insights from the Guix-section: 4 pros: (missing the roll-back feature) see link. 1 cons: "Cannot handle filetypes that have different semantics across different versions While the functional approac

Re: Annotated guix source folder tree

On 2018-11-07 18:53, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Neat! Maybe align the "; "-prefixed comments to the same column? I tried but Thunderbird did not enable me to do that :-\ -- Cheers Swedebugia

Re: Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix

On 08/11/2018 10.09, swedebugia wrote: https://www.slant.co/topics/344/~best-linux-package-managers Insights from the Guix-section: 4 pros: (missing the roll-back feature) see link. 1 cons: "Cannot handle filetypes that have different semantics across different versions While the functional

Re: Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix

On November 8, 2018 4:43:23 AM EST, Thorsten Wilms wrote: >On 08/11/2018 10.09, swedebugia wrote: >> >> https://www.slant.co/topics/344/~best-linux-package-managers >> >> Insights from the Guix-section: >> >> 4 pros: (missing the roll-back feature) see link. >> >> 1 cons: >> >> "Cannot han

Re: Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix

Hi On 2018-11-08 16:31, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: On November 8, 2018 4:43:23 AM EST, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 08/11/2018 10.09, swedebugia wrote: https://www.slant.co/topics/344/~best-linux-package-managers Insights from the Guix-section: 4 pros: (missing the roll-back feature) see link. 1 c

Re: New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual

Hi Ludo Following these instructions should make the warnings go away, > doesn’t it? > No they don't. I installed the package, exported the path, added it to my .profile file but the message still appears. And if I check `env | sort`, even after rebooting or shutting down, the GUIX_LOCPATH is set.

Re: CLI reorganization revisited

Hi :) On 2018-11-06 15:24, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello, swedebugia skribis: I would like to go ahead preparing a patch for the aliases for ‘guix install’, ‘guix remove’, and ‘guix upgrade’. That would be sweet! I gave it a go but did not get that far. :p This patch errors out with: $

Re: CLI reorganization revisited

> > I do not understand how args work. Is this documented somewhere? > > Also I do not understand this form: > > (define (guix-describe . args) >^ > What is the role of the dot? > The dot serve as a separator between 'required' argument and 'rest' arguments which is always a l

Re: New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual

Hello, On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, 20:54 Laura Lazzati Hi Ludo > > Following these instructions should make the warnings go away, >> doesn’t it? >> > No they don't. I installed the package, exported the path, added it to my > .profile file but the message still appears. > And if I check `env | sort`, eve

Re: CLI reorganization revisited

On 2018-11-08 23:46, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: I do not understand how args work. Is this documented somewhere? Also I do not understand this form: (define (guix-describe . args)    ^ What is the role of the dot? The dot serve as a separator between 're

Re: Missing code comments in guix source: 2 examples from gnu/services

On 2018-11-06 15:15, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Gábor Boskovits skribis: swedebugia ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 5., H, 9:33): [...] prometheus-node-exporter-shepherd-service is just as little documented in the same file. From the file I have no idea what this does as its only document

Re: Lisp libraries: Other variants? (CCL, CLisp, etc.)

>Have you looked at lisp-utils.scm? I think it incorporates some of your ideas >already. It could perhaps be generalized following your ideas so that it works >for all Lisps out of the box. I've not. I did a cursory search for this as well, but didn't find anything. Would you be so kind as to