Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

2021-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Mark H Weaver 写道: >> The reason is that our 'gnome' package depends >> on 'gnome-boxes' > > To me (a non-GNOME user), this is the problem. GNOME Boxes is a > wonderful front-end for creating and running virtual machines > using libvirt. Why is it installed

Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

2021-07-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Mark H Weaver writes: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > >> Maxime Devos 写道: >>> Perhaps the "zfs" package can be split in an userspace package >>> (containing userspace binaries and libraries) and a kernelspace >>> component (containing the kernel module)? And let the kernelspace >>> component b

Trying OpenCL on Guix: An Experience Report

2021-07-05 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
I have written up a blog post here[1] which describes my experience with trying to use OpenCL on Guix. While researching this, I found a few messages in IRC and on guix-help wondering how to get this to work, so I hope this helps someone. As always, thanks to everyone involved in Guix. [1] https

Use of %texlive-revision and %texlive-tag in tex.scm

2021-07-05 Thread Nathan Benedetto Proença
Hello! I am trying to upgrade the package texlive, first for me, but hopefully for a patch, and I have a question regarding Guix policies. As you can see on https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build-system/texlive.scm?id=f7692617b624a01615cf412773c4dad9a2deeb68 the file gui

Exploiting hashes for Scheme refactoring

2021-07-05 Thread Nathan Benedetto Proença
Good morning! As a new Guix developer, I want to learn about workflows which help me catch bugs in Scheme development. Is it a good idea to exploit Guix hashing infrastructure to ensure that a Scheme refactoring did not change the packages produced? Has some developer already done that? Are there

Re: Use of %texlive-revision and %texlive-tag in tex.scm

2021-07-05 Thread Xinglu Chen
FYI, someone else is already workin on upgrading Texlive to 2021 on the ‘core-updates’ branch (Texlive is already at 2020 on core-updates). Maybe you would be interested in helping out?

Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

2021-07-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > I would rather have nothing depend on ZFS by default, but we could have > “libvirt-with-zfs” etc. > > I agree that GNOME Boxes and libvirt should not depend on ZFS by default > because (1) ZFS is an optional feature and probably not widely used, (2) > ZFS co

Create branch for Haskell build changes and updates?

2021-07-05 Thread John Kehayias
Hello, There have been several recent bug reports and patches (list below) that could be addressed with some changes to haskell-build-system, the Hackage importer, and some package updates. Given the number of packages affected, it was discussed on #guix that it would be good to have a branch f

Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

2021-07-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> >>> Maxime Devos 写道: Perhaps the "zfs" package can be split in an userspace package (containing userspace binaries and libraries) and a kernelspace component (containing the kernel module

Re: Use of %texlive-revision and %texlive-tag in tex.scm

2021-07-05 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann
Hello, Em segunda-feira, 5 de julho de 2021, às 14:09:24 -03, Xinglu Chen escreveu: > FYI, someone else is already workin on upgrading Texlive to 2021 on the > ‘core-updates’ branch (Texlive is already at 2020 on core-updates). > > > > Maybe you would be in

Re: Debbugs Usertags - which user to use?

2021-07-05 Thread Chris Marusich
Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hello, > > Chris Marusich writes: > > [...] > >> Yes, my understanding is that the user "guix" would also work. >> >> I think it would be fine to use the user "guix" instead of >> "guix-devel@gnu.org". Perhaps it would have the added benefit of >> eliminating any possi