Re: guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Amin Bandali writes: >> >> Please remember to use top-bottom posting; this convention is used on >> the Guix mailing lists and makes it a bit neater to follow :-). >> > > *bottom-posting :-) Indeed; thanks for correcting this nonsense I wrote :-).

man pages are empty and have a (command exited with status 255) error when quitting

2019-09-14 Thread Kenan Toker
Hi All, I have been having trouble getting man pages to work on a fresh installation of Guix on a laptop. After I have installed man-db and man-pages, if I run e.g. `man ls`, I get an empty man page with the following at the footer of the page: Manual page ls(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for he

Re: guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-14 Thread Amin Bandali
> > Please remember to use top-bottom posting; this convention is used on > the Guix mailing lists and makes it a bit neater to follow :-). > *bottom-posting :-)

Re: guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Todor, Todor Kondić writes: > ... which leads to a question, why is there no readline anymore? I notice it > is a separate package in guix. Is this a guix decision, or a new development > in guile? > > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, 9 September 2019 09:55, Todor Kond

Re: defining package variants automatically

2019-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > I played a little with defining package variants automatically, but I > can’t get this to work. The idea of this module is to define a variant > for every package using the emacs-build-system, such that it uses a > different Emacs variant dur