> I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
> terms why Guix matters.
>
> I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical
> vocabulary.
>
> Let me know what you think!
Reads well to me, but that could be because I already understand the
content of the
On 15/01/20 12:35 am, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> Any news on this upgrade? Would be nice to play with patchwork for gdb.
>
Sorry I got caught up in other work and had to put this aside. I hope
to resume in a week or so.
Siddhesh
On 2020-01-14, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
> terms why Guix matters.
Thanks, it's a nice read!
> * Open source is not enough
>
> We might be tempted to think that free open source software gives us
> transparency about what's in t
It is purist, and that's hard for a general audience. To CS and math
people, this is exactly the way to go. The start is stronger. Some of
Ken Thompson's more worrying work should be included to convey our
intuitive fear of this to the layperson. The second link may not be all
that credible,
> I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
> terms why Guix matters.
It's very nice, thanks for your work. I think I'll share it with friends to make
them get Guix a bit better.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:16 PM Sergio Durigan Junior
wrote:
>
> On Monday, December 09 2019, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
> > On 09/12/19 9:14 pm, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> >> Hey, Siddhesh,
> >>
> >> I know you're in touch with Konstantin already, but another option would
> >> be to use the
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I'd be happy to get feedback from your presentation!
It's not until March 26th (it's part of a series of lunchtime
discussions), but I'm happy to write a summary and report back.
Best,
Jack
Hi Moritz,
Hum? complicated issue... so it is more questions than concrete help. Sorry.
Currently, there is no easy path to achieve your goal, if I understand
correctly.
But that is an interesting question for improving the tools. :-)
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 02:51, Moritz Lell wrote:
> to repr
Hi Sherab,
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 17:57, wisdomlight--- via wrote:
> Is it possible to install packages not from the Guix repository?
>
What do you mean by "install packages not from Guix repository"?
If you mean packages not packaged in Guix, give a look to Channels [1].
If you mean install
I think Guix has flatpak, you could try that.
However that's somewhat defeating the point of using Guix. The proper
way to install packages not in the official repo is to use channels:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html#Channels
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si
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I'd be happy to get feedback from your presentation!
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Is it possible to install packages not from the Guix repository?
I’d appreciate a link to the relevant online information.
I’ll try working it out on my own.
🤞
Thanks.
Sherab
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Hi,
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 15:57, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 22:42, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> >
> > > One of the great features of Guix is that one can roll back his
> > > profile. But I did a garbage collection (gc) that was too aggressive
> > > such that a relevant ol
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
terms why Guix matters.
I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical vocabulary.
Let me know what you think!
On my initial reading, I think it's great, thank
I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
terms why Guix matters.
I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical vocabulary.
Let me know what you think!
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https://ambrevar.xyz/
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