Typo on Savannah project page.

On savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=guix there is a typo. It says: "Scripts for videos represenging Guix" with represenging being the typo. roptat on irc suggested it should be: "Scripts for videos presenting Guix"

Packages with the same description

Issue: Packages with the same synopsis and description. Why does it matter: This is an issue for people who want to know the difference between the packages. Particularly if they do not understand dependencies or are not going to look at the source code for the packages. Examples: guile-emacs

Re: Guix on the ASUS C201PA

Parabola made an announcement in December last year: "Parabola officially supports librebooted Asus Chromebook C201". https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-officially-supports-librebooted-asus-chromebook-c201/ The announcement includes links which may be helpful.

Re: Typo on Savannah project page.

Now it says "presenging" instead of "presenting". Looks like the letter t are being replaced with g both times.

Re: Packages with the same description

Looking into this further there are many packages with non unique synopsis or description. Total number of Guix packages. guix package -s "" | recsel -p name | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr --delete '\n' | sed 's/name: /\nname: /g' | wc -l 9211 Number of packages with n

Re: Typo on Savannah project page.

Just checked again and it looks good now.

Guix pronunciation

Doing this duckduckgo site search: `geeks site:https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/` gives me only one match. Which is footnote 1 of section 1 Introduction of the manual. I do not know of anywhere else where the pronunciation of Guix is explicitly stated. I would like to know what other think abo

Config files without corresponding program

When I first installed Guix SD I followed the instructions in the manual. I modeled my system off of the example system configuration template 'for a "bare bones" setup, with no X11 display server' from "8.1 Using the Configuration System" of the manual. In the home directories for both root and

Re: Config files without corresponding program

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > mikadoZero wrote: >> When I first installed Guix SD I followed the instructions in the >> manual. I modeled my system off of the example system configuration >> template 'for a "bare bones" setup, with no X11 display server&#

Re: Guix pronunciation

sirgazil writes: > Hi, mikadoZero, > > > El 10/03/19 a las 11:13 a. m., mikadoZero escribió: >> Doing this duckduckgo site search: `geeks >> site:https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/` gives me only one match. Which >> is footnote 1 of section 1 Introduction of

Re: Guix pronunciation

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Hullo! > > Now I personally think ‘Guix’ looks and sounds good (not fine), and > our logo is positively stunning, and damn professional too. If that > makes me biased, so be it ;-) > > mikadoZero wrote: >> I also wanted to know what pe

Re: CDN Test Results - Should We Continue Using a CDN?

Chris Marusich writes: > Since the test has concluded, we are not currently using a CDN. Going > forward, we need to decide if we want to continue to use a CDN. In "14.4.1 Software Freedom" of the Guix manual it says that Guix is free software and follows the free software distribution guideli

Guix trademarked by Express Logic

I have search guix-devel for this and did not find it. I would like to know what people think about these topics: * does the Guix free software project have a trademark? * proactive name change * reacting to a forced name change * talking with Forbes Lindsey of Jade to gain insights * talking wit

Re: CDN Test Results - Should We Continue Using a CDN?

Thank you for correcting my false assumptions and sharing that link. Ricardo Wurmus writes: > mikadoZero writes: > >> In "14.4.1 Software Freedom" of the Guix manual it says that Guix is free >> software and follows the free software distribution guidelines. >

Re: Guix trademarked by Express Logic

Jelle Licht writes: > I really think that "software" is much too broad a category to consider > for a trademark clash in this case. From what I can see, there is barely > any overlap between our Guix and the GUIX product that Express Logic is > working on. This might just be my vocational bias in

Re: Guix trademarked by Express Logic

n...@n0.is writes: > The other Guix keeps coming up over the years. > I don't think we have to do anyting because it's 2 separate fields > of software. > No problem unless one of the Guix starts making it one. Reading the recent press release linked it is clear that Express Logic is continuing

; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices

system.scm line 537: net-tools ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices git log -L 537,537:system.scm outputs: commit 6f436c54d6d9698e62639de31a845cd9b9167423 Date: Wed Jun 4 2014 This comment was committed in 2014. Is inetutils at the point where net-tools can be removed? If it is then I

Re: Status update on 1.0

Ludovic Courtès writes: > • The graphical installer has been merged (yay!) but we still need to > discuss it in the manual and to test it some more. I was just going to install Guix SD on another system. So I could try the installer. I could also try my hand at texinfo and do some docum

Re: ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suffices

Leo Famulari writes: >> What does XXX in a comment mean? I have seen it a couple times. > > It indicates something undesirable. Like a really nasty hack to > work-around something or a problem upstream that we have no good > solution for. Sort of like TODO but with extra complications. Thanks

Re: Status update on 1.0

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > mikadoZero writes: > >>> • “GuixSD” has been removed from the web site and from almost all of >>> the source code. Still need to fix the file names that appear in >>> Makefile.am. >> >> Is it to be changed to &q

Improve package search

# Motivation >From Ludovic Courtès response to bug#34828: > "I would recommend against turning descriptions into lists of commands > just for the sake of package search (we should instead have another > mechanism to determine which package provides a given command) ..." `guix package -s` often re

Re: Guix pronunciation

Laura Lazzati writes: > ... The person I met interested in at least > playing whith Guix told me that was thinking of both Guix and Nix, and > I was asked before about the differences. Is it in the manual? Because > I don't remember reading it. ... I just searched through the manual for Nix and

Re: Improve package search

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > ... Now all we > need is someone to do the work, but that's the easy part, right? > ... I do not yet know enough about Guix or Guile to work on implementing this.

Automated linting before master branch commit

# Automated linting What do people think about automating package linting? This would be to make sure a package is linted before it is committed to the Guix repository master branch? I am not familiar with what Guix uses for continuous integration / deployment. I do not know if automated lintin

Re: Automated linting before master branch commit

Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > >> What do people think about automating package linting? This would be to >> make sure a package is linted before it is committed to the Guix >> repository master branch? > > A linter by its nature will in some cases flag things which are not wrong, > otherw

Guix on a microkernel

# Appreciation I appreciate: * many of Guix's design decisions. The one that is relevant to this discussion is the kernel. I like that Guix uses the linux-libre (no binary blobs) instead of the linux kernel. * that work is underway to get Guix to work with GNU Hurd. I like that a microk

Re: Zotero Packaging Request

Raghav given Pierre's assessment I just wanted to suggest some potential Zotero alternatives. They would require using a document compiler like latex, groff or pandoc. I do not know if the following have the feature set that you are looking for. I have not used these myself but they would be w

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

This is a nice initiative. >From reading the post I found it unclear what this Software Heritage group is and what it's relation to Guix is. Would it make sense for the "Software Heritage" to be decentralized through free peer to peer software similar to what is discussed here: https://lists.

Re: Guix on a microkernel

I do not have benchmark information. Thank you for sharing the link. zna...@tutanota.com writes: > Thanks for your compilation. > Do you have found actual benchmark tests? > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/slow.html > > "The Hurd is cur

Re: Guix on a microkernel

Pjotr Prins writes: > ... Being a GNU project we have a stake > in getting the Hurd to a usable level and get people to start using > it for daily work. I do not understand this. Could someone elaborate on this "stake" idea further. Does Guix give preferential treatment to GNU projects over

Re: Status update on 1.0

Ludovic Courtès writes: > ... > Anyway, you’re still very much welcome to test the installer! See the > manual on how to build the installation image: > > > https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html > ... `git describe` v0.16.0-4215-g1aa662b309

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

Ludovic Courtès writes: > ... > Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer > networks: it’s something where you want availability guarantee, whereas > peer-to-peer storage networks usually replicate content that’s popular, > while unpopular content disappears. > ... As

Re: User shell: state or config?

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > We recently discussed handling of the ‘shell’ field of ‘user-account’: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-04/msg00171.html > > As I wrote there, starting with the switch to (gnu build accounts) in > 0ae735bcc8ff7fdc89d67b492bdee9091ee1

Re: Guix on a microkernel

Thank you for sharing this. Vasilii Kolobkov writes: > My .2 cryptocoins, but you might find it interesting in evaluating HURD > as a kernerl for Guix system. Frankly, I haven't been following HURD > development and don't know how much's changed since. > > [[http://walfield.org/papers/200707-wal