Re: Where are the packages

2023-10-12 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
András Vöröskői skribis: > Hi, > > I have just installed a fresh Guix system for the first time. I have > chosen XFCE as my desktop. The install went fine. > > I was expecting XFCE to pop up among my installed packages, but > neither my user profile, nor the root profile does not have them (both

Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages

2023-10-12 Thread Christopher Baines
Josh Marshall writes: > Presently, I am waiting until the end of global warming to finish > pulling down texlive packages. I see that there are a few servers > from which packages are provided. Is the following feasible as a > feature to improve effective download speed? It really depends. Ca

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-12 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 17:56, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: > Some guix packages behave differently between Guix system and Debian, I will > investigate those on occasion. For instance, the bower mail reader from Guix > has some issues with Unicode when run in Debian and I don't understand why > y

Re: G-exp that makes use of guile-ini

2023-10-12 Thread Fabio Natali
Artyom Poptsov wrote: > I've released Guile-INI 0.5.4 Thanks Artyom! Here's a micro-patch to update it on Guix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2023-10/msg00680.html Have a lovely day. Cheers, F.

guix pull performance

2023-10-12 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
Hello Guix, I am having performance issues with Guix operations since a few weeks. Concretely, any call to `guix pull` takes approximately 10 minutes to finish, on a reasonably powerful machine (Core i7, 12 cores, 16G RAM, 1 TB SSD drive with plenty of available space), and this even if rerun `gui

Re: guix pull performance

2023-10-12 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
De Ignas Lapėnas le 12/10/2023 à 13:24: > I’m fairly new to the Guix scene, but recently there was a discussion about it > on devel-g...@gnu.org mailing list. So far it works as designed, because every > time you use guix pull, they have to recompile every package definition. > I’m a complete pleb

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-10-12 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 at 18:08, "jgart" wrote: > Where should the user of the Guix command-line interface be expected > to read about the verbosity LEVEL argument that they can pass to > `--verbosity` and that is also valid? Well, for helping me in muscling my memory, I have this patch appli

Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages

2023-10-12 Thread Josh Marshall
I just went and installed everything with texlive in the name. A few were less than 1KB, a few over 1GB. Download speed peaked at less than 3MB/s. My Internet is a fiber connection with symmetric gigabit. However, I think picking at this info is the wrong tack. I am of the opinion this should b

Re: guix pull performance

2023-10-12 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 15:51, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. Now I think I understand the reason for this > behaviour: Guix has to compile the whole set of modules, including all package > definitions, and it is rather slow at that. So I guess I won't expect > significant

Re: Pinebook Pro boot from NVME

2023-10-12 Thread paul
Hi Vagrant, On 10/12/23 06:41, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2023-10-07, paul via wrote: I'm interested in using the best distro in the world on my Pinebook Pro (currently the bootloader is broken on master, see [0], but guix time-machine allows me to still be able to proceed). I was not aware o