Re: Tons of packages get rebuild

2019-10-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 22.10.19 um 05:27 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > I can only think that one of the packages you updated as part of your > work on the KDE Framework must be a dependency of many others (such as > Python, or another core tool)? Of course the updated package have many dependencies. But I would expect a

The cookbook is on-line!

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! A few weeks ago Ricardo started writing a Guix Cookbook⁰ based on material previously published elsewhere, notably on the blog. The cookbook made it in to the repo¹, and you’re all welcome to propose new sections based on your experience with Guix! The news is that the Cookbook is no

Re: The cookbook is on-line!

2019-10-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
This is great! :) I just noticed that about half the packaging tutorial is missing (the part after the Scheme crash course). Shouldn't be added? Maybe Ricardo had a plan in mind. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

xdm

2019-10-22 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hi— I see quite some issues passing by of login managers. Would it be a good idea to provide XDM? I have been using it a lot (especially in the form of xenodm under OpenBSD) together with .xinitrc and I cannot remember ever having any issue with it. It would probably be easy to make it a standa

Re: The cookbook is on-line!

2019-10-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I just noticed that about half the packaging tutorial is missing (the > part after the Scheme crash course). > > Shouldn't be added? Maybe Ricardo had a plan in mind. >From the sources: @c TODO: Continue the tutorial So yeah, the plan was to add the rest :) I

Re: Who is sending my Guix System to sleep?

2019-10-22 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Konrad Hinsen skribis: The only problem is that after 20 minutes, the virtual machine seems to freeze. I've experienced unwanted suspends as well on a desktop system when not logged in graphically. I found the cause in /var/log/messages:

Re: Who is sending my Guix System to sleep?

2019-10-22 Thread Jack Hill
I also found a related Debian bug for gdm settings: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896083

Installing GuixSD over existing system resulting in strange behavior

2019-10-22 Thread John D. Boy
I am trying to upgrade (or "lustrate" as the NixOS people say) a Debian system running on a virtual server, roughly following existing guides by wingo and ng0. I documented how I went about this here: https://gist.github.com/jboynyc/ef312a686749de693dddc4f3a657a919 As I write in that document,

List build dependencies of a store item

2019-10-22 Thread Arun Isaac
I am customizing the git-minimal package, and for some reason python is getting rebuilt from source, and I'm not able to figure out why. I can recursively list/graph runtime dependencies (references) of a store item using the following commands. guix size /gnu/store/... guix graph -t references

Re: List build dependencies of a store item

2019-10-22 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 23 octobre 2019 07:33:37 GMT+02:00, Arun Isaac a écrit : > >I am customizing the git-minimal package, and for some reason python is >getting rebuilt from source, and I'm not able to figure out why. > >I can recursively list/graph runtime dependencies (references) of a >store item using the fol