Re: Contributing to the manual

2018-11-08 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Quiliro, Quiliro Ordonez ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 9., P, 6:29): > > I have read the manual almost completely. Here is a list of observations > I have made. I can continue to report. The first few are just notes to > definitions of terms such as "derivation", "input", "BAG", "implicit >

Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?

2018-11-08 Thread Mark H Weaver
swedebugia writes: > On 2018-09-14 19:46, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Hi Pierre, >> >> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> If, say, “coreutils” is live, then the corresponding “coreutils.drv” will be considered live as well when you pass --gc-keep-derivations. >>> Is the .drv live forever then? E

Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?

2018-11-08 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-09-14 19:46, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: If, say, “coreutils” is live, then the corresponding “coreutils.drv” will be considered live as well when you pass --gc-keep-derivations. Is the .drv live forever then? Even when all the corresponding outputs

Re: Understanding Cuirass

2018-11-08 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi Björn, The Cuirass documentation should still be improved, so I understand your questions. Here are some answers, feel free to improve the manual afterwards :) > * What should the procedure #:proc return? The procedure #:proc takes exactly two arguments, the guix store and an association li

Re: GTK icons missing with EXWM

2018-11-08 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-09-16 10:53, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Thanks, installing Adwaita fixed the missing icons in Epiphany. I find that hicolor-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme are rather useless now that adwaita-icon-theme is installed. gtk-youtube-viewer is still missing about half the icons. Could there

Re: openvpn with networkmanager

2018-11-08 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-09-18 05:55, Benjamin Slade wrote: On 2018-09-13T02:54:52-0600, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think it would be nice to add a commented example to this section of > the manual, like we have for many other services. I think this would be very useful. With an example it should be muc

Re: Contributing to the manual

2018-11-08 Thread Quiliro Ordonez
I have read the manual almost completely. Here is a list of observations I have made. I can continue to report. The first few are just notes to definitions of terms such as "derivation", "input", "BAG", "implicit inputs", etc. But after that I mostly report errors on the manual. If am not sure how

Re: Shepherd and Guille

2018-11-08 Thread Vladimir Sedach
> thank you both Vladimir and Pierre for taking the time to respond. > while i also thought that the article was not so well done, the point > about using GC/JIT/etc. languages for "critical" software like init > seemed somewhat worth investigating. thus thanks again for your > inputs. Sorry, I s

Understanding Cuirass

2018-11-08 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, I want to give Cuirass a try but I don't understand it (For the reference: talking about version 0.0.1-21.0b40dca). From the doc/curiass.texi I copy this snipped of a specification: '((#:name . "foo-master") (#:load-path-inputs . ("guix")) (#:package-path-inputs . ("packages")) (#:

Make and "cc" executable

2018-11-08 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi Guix! With gcc-toolchain install, I still have no "cc" executable. With many other distributions, "cc" is a symlink to either gcc and clang. Programs like "make" default to "cc" as the value of CC, the C compiler environment variable. Therefore a simple "make" fails on Guix when the Makefile d