Re: Why do some vm-image VM packages display "OUTPUTS: (Package is obsolete)"?

2016-07-06 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2016-07-06 05:55 +0300) wrote: [...] > Why do some vm-image VM packages display "OUTPUTS: (Package is obsolete)"? Sorry, I have zero knowledge about VM things and I don't understand what you describe, but I have an idea... ... Emacs interface uses the term "obsolete" *wrongfully* (I have

Re: 'guix system vm' questions

2016-07-06 Thread myglc2
David Craven writes: [...] >> >> From: myglc2 >> >> David Craven writes: >> >>> So I packaged rng-tools and created a shepherd service, but I realized >>> that the service needs to be started before the activation part of the >>> lsh service. What's the best way to do this? >>> >>> https://git.

Re: AUR for GuixSD (was: GuixSD on arm (ng0))

2016-07-06 Thread Thompson, David
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:15 AM, David Craven wrote: > I was under the impression that that was one of the statements Jookia > made. You calling it the gnu system reinforced that impression. Sorry > if I misunderstood. Glad to hear that's not the case. :-) Big > discussion over nothing then =P I r

Re: AUR for GuixSD (was: GuixSD on arm (ng0))

2016-07-06 Thread David Craven
I was under the impression that that was one of the statements Jookia made. You calling it the gnu system reinforced that impression. Sorry if I misunderstood. Glad to hear that's not the case. :-) Big discussion over nothing then =P

Re: AUR for GuixSD (was: GuixSD on arm (ng0))

2016-07-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
David Craven writes: > So how rigid are you on the gnu system thing? Was jookia right that > you won't accept patches that will make guixsd a gnu system or > something else? ;-) I did some work on using musl as a libc on nixos > for embedded systems, I came here because I thought it was more > h

Re: AUR for GuixSD

2016-07-06 Thread Kete Foy
David Craven: > I > think telling non developers to go buy this wifi card if you want to > use the gnu system or else we won't help you is kind of not very > user-friendly. > > I think hackers see it as being user-unfriendly if they supported hardware that disrespected computer users, and the ar

Re: AUR for GuixSD (was: GuixSD on arm (ng0))

2016-07-06 Thread David Craven
Hi Ricardo, Thanks for the info. I do maintain my private packages using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH too. So how rigid are you on the gnu system thing? Was jookia right that you won't accept patches that will make guixsd a gnu system or something else? ;-) I did some work on using musl as a libc on nixos f