Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-01 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
On Thu, Nov 30 2023, Attila Lendvai wrote: > the use of 'service' to describe two rather different abstractions: a > component of an OS vs. a deamon process run by shepherd. Indeed, the use of 'service' in much of Guix appears to be a grand misnomer. It probably occurred because the meaning expan

Re: GUIX days and FOSDEM 2024

2024-02-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
Guix days is happening with a large group! To keep track of things we have a guix days channel on matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#guix-days:matrix.org Pj.

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-01 Thread Vivien Kraus
Hello, Le mercredi 31 janvier 2024 à 17:44 +0100, Josselin Poiret a écrit : > Also, I see that most of the patches that were requested to be merged > into c-u (like the big pages for jemalloc) actually got pushed, are > there any other (well-tested) ones we can go for at the same time as > the > g

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-01 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 05:29 -0800 schrieb Felix Lechner: > On Thu, Nov 30 2023, Attila Lendvai wrote: > > > the use of 'service' to describe two rather different abstractions: > > a component of an OS vs. a deamon process run by shepherd. > > Indeed, the use of 'service' in much of Gui

[fr] Moment de convivialité Guix@Paris en février

2024-02-01 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
(Warning: this email is in french because the meeting is supposed to be held in French… and in person.) Bonjour Guix, Ce jeudi 8 février 2024 à 19h, se tiendra la cinquième édition de Guix@Paris ouverte au public. Comme les fois précédentes, il sera possible de participer à distance (*cf* ci-dess

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-01 Thread Attila Lendvai
> there for most of the time already. And if you think about it, > symlinking stuff to /etc is a service. i've arrived to guix after 3+ decades of programming, most of that in opensource environments, unix-like OS'es, and more than a decade using linux as my primary OS and lisp as my goto langua

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-01 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 20:30 + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > > for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in > the backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you > can try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of > things. Which i

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)

2024-02-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
> for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in the > backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you can > try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of > things. I don’t think it’s a good idea to aim to satisfy some presumed “average unix

Re: Introducing Guix "Features"!

2024-02-01 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
On Thu, Feb 01 2024, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30 2023, Attila Lendvai wrote: >> the use of 'service' to describe two rather different abstractions: a >> component of an OS vs. a deamon process run by shepherd. > > Indeed, the