[PATCH] gnu: icecat: Display IPA.

2015-07-02 Thread Alírio Eyng
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#FOOT1 doesn't work by default From 52762207ac1e5f9037506d30dd8b408acc764f92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:03:53 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Display IPA. * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm

Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Display IPA.

2015-07-03 Thread Alírio Eyng
"Our goal" ... "promotion and tight integration of GNU components" (http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#GNU-Distribution), so we should use GNU FreeFont as default (with the technical benefit about IPA) we are already installing fonts (non-GNU): find -L .guix-profile -name '*otf*' .g

[PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Update to 20150824.

2016-03-19 Thread Alírio Eyng
From f4dc7c6318f42613b5f566653c5106710ace920d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?al=C3=ADrio=20eyng?= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:52:12 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Update to 20150824. * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontforge): Update to 20150824. [inputs]: Add libltdl, libxft, pkg-

[PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Build fonts bit-reproducibly.

2016-03-23 Thread alírio eyng
From 701b9711b870ad4abdbea17616c98a456b93f86d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?al=C3=ADrio=20eyng?= Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:13:35 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Build fonts bit-reproducibly. * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontforge)[source](snippet): Remove time dump on ttf. ---

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Build fonts bit-reproducibly.

2016-03-23 Thread alírio eyng
>> + (substitute* "fontforge/tottf.c" >> + (("at.>head\\.createtime\\[0\\]") "0") >> + (("at.>head\\.modtime\\[0\\]") "0")) > This is for timestamps recorded in TTF files, right? yes > Perhaps it would be best to honor the ‘SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH’ envir

[PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

2016-03-26 Thread alírio eyng
From dac1dfe1d9b6716d1aefa339e5145c26dd798565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?al=C3=ADrio=20eyng?= Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:39:27 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source. * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-freefont-ttf): Update to 20

Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

2016-03-28 Thread alírio eyng
>> * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-freefont-ttf): Update to 20120503. >> [arguments]: Build from source. >> * guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (%tarball-rx): Remove comment. > Not clear, how about “Remove comment about freefont-ttf.”? ok >> […] >> +(native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,(package (inherit fo

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-03-29 Thread alírio eyng
these are the approaches i can think: *extremely conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1] removing all emulators *conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1] make packages/executables like game1-emulator1, game1-emulator2, ... and not allowing direct emulator installation/execu

Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

2016-03-31 Thread alírio eyng
reiterating for the list On 3/31/16, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I understand cannot support Python 2 and 3 simultaneously, but I think > Leo was suggesting changing the ‘fontforge’ package to use Python 2.x > instead of 3.x. WDYT? python 2 has a end of life determined, 2020, https://www.python.org/

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-03-31 Thread alírio eyng
Isaac David: >Parabola does ship fully free emulators for which no free games >exist. At this moment the user has to opt-in for installing >your-freedom_emu to block those packages, so it actually falls >down somewhere between your "liberal" and "extremely liberal" >categories. "parabola follows ex

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-01 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/1/16, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > alírio eyng writes: >> Isaac David: >>> However in the last few days I have >>>seen many arguments showing there are yet more valid uses I hadn't >>>imagined, like learning from the source code and testing portabili

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-01 Thread alírio eyng
Ivan Zaigralin: > Yes, it emulates non-free software. wait, this is missing the point there are several categories of software that are itself free and can be used to run (directly or indirectly) nonfree software: nonfree down in dag: dosemu _only_ nonfree up in dag: ndiswrapper nonfree oriented c

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-02 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/2/16, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > Why not just requiring some documentation along the emulator that > documents at least one fully free software that can run on it. this is missing some complexity: we don't want something better done natively (we exclude ndiswrapper)[1] but we still want

Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

2016-04-02 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/2/16, Eric Bavier wrote: > It often appears that in trivial scripts it is simply the 'print' > syntax that causes breakage between python2 and 3. and you trivially fix it with 2to3 command > while packaging the fantasque-sans font, I found that it requires > fontforge with python2 (because o

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-03 Thread alírio eyng
i think i got the root of the controversy: some people started to think of emulators as hardware (replacements) hardware is useful to develop to some people started to think of emulators as obsolete apis obsolete apis are not useful to develop to i still see emulators (like ndiswrapper) as obsol

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-03 Thread alírio eyng
Tobias Platen: > Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering reverse engineering is the action of understanding undocumented interfaces (mostly hardware). emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it. this result is useless if there's no other interface implementations

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-03 Thread alírio eyng
Felipe Sanches: >On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, alírio eyng wrote: >> Tobias Platen: >>> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering ... >> emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it. ... >I completely disagree! >I have been actively

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-03 Thread alírio eyng
Felipe Sanches: >I think MAME is likely not compatible with the free sw distro >guidelines. ignoring the trademark; as a whole, mame is in the same category as wine, which is allowed. but most parts of it are in the same category as ndiswrapper; i don't think this parts should be allowed just becau

Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from source.

2016-04-04 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/3/16, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > alírio eyng skribis: >> On 4/2/16, Eric Bavier wrote: >>> do we really want >>> python3 for fontforge if their documentation is introducing users to >>> python2 syntax and many font packages need python2? ... > I think

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-04 Thread alírio eyng
Felipe Sanches: >MAME provides an interactive debugger so mame is not just an emulator. it is a emulator, disassembler and debugger. this is relevant information i can't see in official documentation, thanks. it seems even with a obsolete executable format, it can be a interesting development envi

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-04 Thread alírio eyng
Felipe Sanches: >On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:23 PM, alírio eyng wrote: >> this development environment works for all architectures mame supports? >Yes. The debugger dialog is generic ... >mame/src/devices/cpu$ ls ... >i386 the debugger works on all architectures i can use i386 i ca

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-06 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/5/16, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: >documentation (and packaging as you point it) can > steer users towards free software. ... > Which one to do would then depend on the context. > For instance with qemu and libvirt, the software was modified not to > steer users towards running non-free GNU

[PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Update to 20160404.

2016-04-07 Thread alírio eyng
From 4266012ea39ebcba97e7c2d61c26fd3f42b75cb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?al=C3=ADrio=20eyng?= Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:04:07 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Update to 20160404. * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontforge): Update to 20160404. [source](snippet): Remove tottf.c mo

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontforge: Update to 20160404.

2016-04-07 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/8/16, Eric Bavier wrote: > Does > FONTFORGE_VERSIONDATE not need to be updated? this marks the time when fontforge builds became reproducible in guix. otherwise it's pretty arbitrary. ludo, wdyt?

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-09 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/9/16, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > alírio eyng wrote: >> so mame is not just an emulator. >> it is a emulator, disassembler and debugger. ... >> is there a similar environment to a current architecture? > community/qtspim 9.1.17-2 > New user inte

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

2016-04-26 Thread alírio eyng
Luke: >https://wiki.parabola.nu/Emulator_licensing_issues > >This may prove useful in the event of further research/discussion. this was mentioned, and it's missing crucial information. let's add ndiswrapper to it. it would be classified as "free + free use", but it is still rejected; because [0]

Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages

2016-04-28 Thread alírio eyng
Hartmut Goebel: >Am 24.04.2016 um 20:57 schrieb Leo Famulari: >> What about C? Do we need c-linux-libre? ... >why e.g. libsodium does not need to be prefixed by "c-" the c bias is unix heritage. c-linux-libre-headers is good to contrast with cl-hurd[0] or pyhurd[1] similarly there are cryptography

Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages

2016-04-29 Thread alírio eyng
Ludovic Courtès: >what about multiple-language packages? I’m thinking of >‘c+guile-guile’ and ‘c+siod+python-gimp’. the ideal categorization would be one output for each interface. so "guile" (scheme), "guile:c", "gimp" (gui), "gimp:c", "gimp:siod", "gimp:python", "emacs" (gui), "emacs:tui", "emac

Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages

2016-04-30 Thread alírio eyng
On 4/29/16, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 06:31:24PM +0000, alírio eyng wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès: >> >what about multiple-language packages? I’m thinking of >> >‘c+guile-guile’ and ‘c+siod+python-gimp’. >> the ideal categorization would be one

Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages

2016-05-05 Thread alírio eyng
i suggested renaming: readline, libunistring, htslib, c-ares, json-c, icu4c, ... to: c-readline, c-unistring, c-hts, c-ares, c-json, c-icu, ... no replies, is that implicit agreement?

[PATCH] fix python

2014-04-04 Thread Alírio Eyng
This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' >From 0757ec00fa23ed82b14e272b6329f6d89e2f5dd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:28:02 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python: Revert "gnu: Remove unused

Include kernel in hash (Re: [PATCH] fix python)

2014-04-04 Thread Alírio Eyng
On 4/4/14, Eric Bavier wrote: > Alírio Eyng writes: > >> This fixes 'OSError: out of pty devices' with '# >> CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set' > > This does not fix the error it claims to fix on my machine. I think I got a substitute

[PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Make configuration more robust.

2014-04-06 Thread Alírio Eyng
"enabling additional modules...": for search it is just a few lines after "starting phase `build'" and it would need change when options not enabling modules are added. For my next patch, I will add compatibility to my hardware. I don't think splitting in vm and hardware kernel is useful, WDYT? >F

[PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Add SIS hardware compatibility.

2014-04-06 Thread Alírio Eyng
>From 9d83f36249a6e14bf192ef80147ca87e9275d1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 02:05:57 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Add SIS hardware compatibility. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (linux-libre): Add CONFIG_SATA_SIS=y, CONFIG_SIS190=y and

[PATCH] gnu: icecat: Remove duplicated line.

2014-04-07 Thread Alírio Eyng
>From 3e80a72dd8c85c604a65c025e1e9841129270725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 07:06:24 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Remove duplicated line. * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat): Remove duplicated line. --- gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm | 3

Re: [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Add SIS hardware compatibility.

2014-04-09 Thread Alírio Eyng
From bab613902e5459fc794caebf9226663742371d0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:05:04 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Add SIS hardware compatibility. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (linux-libre): Add CONFIG_SATA_SIS=y, CONFIG_SIS190=y and

[PATCH] doc: Expect to fix typo.

2014-04-09 Thread Alírio Eyng
From 33ebb3b14e3359f73dd0c5b42dfbecfadbf5effc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:53:13 + Subject: [PATCH] doc: Expect to fix typo. * doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): "except" it is. --- doc/guix.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

[PATCH] gnu: util-linux: Enable ddate.

2014-04-10 Thread Alírio Eyng
There are discordians out there. Do you discord? From 2e99ec7c6fb50c8c59c918b303db5c38b8354744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:55:50 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: util-linux: Enable ddate. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (util-linux): Add --enable-dd

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xulrunner and conkeror

2014-07-06 Thread Alírio Eyng
I use "abrowser -app conkeror/application.ini"; xulrunner isn't needed at all, just a script...