Re: common software

2018-01-30 Thread zimoun
>> Why not provide different default flavoured profiles ? >> Say, desktop, www, ssh-server, etc. As Debian-installer proposes. > > Do you mean like meta packages? Or GuixSD template configurations? We > have both: usually we define meta packages for desktop environments or > toolchains; we also p

Running code from packs in containers

2018-01-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Actually there are really two approaches we could use. One is to create >> wrappers like this one that do the right thing, independently of what >> the user’s profile contains (‘guix package’ could even generate wrappers >> automatically in

Re: How do I check out a package w/o installing it?

2018-01-30 Thread Arun Isaac
"Thompson, David" writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Arun Isaac > wrote: >> George myglc2 Clemmer writes: >> >>> I tried to use 'guix environment' to check out znc this way ... >>> >>> guix environment --ad-hoc znc -- emacs -nw >>> >>> the znc man is unavailable ... >> >> I have been w