Re: core-updates invites to an ungrafting party

2023-10-11 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Sun, 08 Oct 2023 at 11:12, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > such as fixes to > git-minimal (bug#65924) Why not also update git-minimal/pinned? Well, the idea with git-minimal/pinned (as well as with all /pinned packages) is to have a variant that is

Emacs Packaging Magazine

2023-10-11 Thread indieterminacy
Hello all, I thought Id point out that there is a niche magazine which has started out, which is dedicated to Emacs Elpa: https://amodernist.com/eaez/sep23.html c/o https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11694 Id assume it could be interesting to those passionate for packaging in the Emacs domain. -- J

Re: core-updates invites to an ungrafting party

2023-10-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Simon Tournier writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 08 Oct 2023 at 11:12, Maxim Cournoyer > wrote: > > >> such as fixes to >> git-minimal (bug#65924) > > Why not also update git-minimal/pinned? > > Well, the idea with git-minimal/pinned (as well as with al

Re: performance issue with TeX Live

2023-10-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Emmanuel Beffara writes: > De Nicolas Goaziou le 09/10/2023 à 16:03: >> Emmanuel Beffara writes: >> > I do want to contribute to a solution, because right now texlive is >> > practically unusable in Guix. >> >> FWIW, I use modular TeX Live regularly, so "unusable" is probably a bit >> strong.

Re: Shouldn't docbook-xml/xsl set XML_CATALOG_FILES?

2023-10-11 Thread Bruno Victal
Hi Hartmut, On 2017-03-26 12:28, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > within a few day I stumbled twice over this: When using docbook-xml or > docbook-xsl in a package description, one needs to set XML_CATALOG_FILES > to make xslproc (and others) find the catalogs. > > Shouldn't XML_CATALOG_FILES be

Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

2023-10-11 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi, This is a proposal to help differentiate Guix, the package manager, from Guix System. Background: As far as I understand, Guix was supposed to be GNU's package manager, and GNU was supposed to be the operating system: two products with two different websites. Unfortunatelly, that didn't hap

Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

2023-10-11 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Felipe, On Thu, Oct 12 2023, Luis Felipe wrote: > people call both products by the same name (Guix) I totally agree with you. The confusion is unfortunate. I would call the package manager "Guix," which does the greatest justice to history [1] and pick a new name for the operating system. Wh

Re: IDEA: missing-tests-pypi-error? condition

2023-10-11 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 01:17:10PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > > "jgart" writes: > > >> You want `info -f doc/guix.info`. > > > > Ah yes, I actually used that flag once before and had forgotten it... > > FWIW, it works for me even without '-f'. To add in some more similar and useful