Re: scanning in GNU Guix

2025-04-06 Thread gfp
Hi, I got this printer free of charge. somebody put it on a place in my house, a corner/niche on the ground floor, where every one puts things for giving away, so everyone can take it. I took it from there without any costs. I have been using this printer for 5 years already. I even got a second

Re: scanning in GNU Guix

2025-04-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sun, Apr 06 2025, gfp wrote: > I got this printer free of charge. That's the best way! If you have a choice, check for scanning support here. [1] In general, I prefer separate devices. Multi-function equipment bumps the odds that something works less well. Kind regards Felix

Question about build systems and programming language dependencies

2025-04-06 Thread Mark L.
Hi everyone! I am trying out Guix to build software, I like it so far, but what confuses me are the build systems. I originally thought a build system would figure out which dependencies are needed based on the project lockfile (has versions and hashes) and then installs them from there. But i

Re: Gnome "oh no something has gone wrong..."

2025-04-06 Thread Matteo Valsasina
On mer, mar 26, 2025 at 08:01 Devyn C via wrote: > I am new to guix and just install guix on a clean system and I am getting > this as well. > > The environment immediately crashes upon boot at login with the message from > the subject line. > > Guess I'll choose a different DE/WM. > Hi all,

services file for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

2025-04-06 Thread Sam Crawford
Hi, this is mostly resolved, but I just thought I'd flag it and ask if there's any better solution than the one I found. Problem: I was unable to install any packages, and was getting the error message: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype My solution: Guix seems

services file for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

2025-04-06 Thread Sam Crawford
Hi, this is mostly resolved, but I just thought I'd flag it and ask if there's any better solution than the one I found. Problem: I was unable to install any packages, and was getting the error message: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype My solution: Guix seems to

Re: Question about build systems and programming language dependencies

2025-04-06 Thread Tomas Volf
"Mark L." writes: > Hi everyone! > > I am trying out Guix to build software, I like it so far, but what confuses > me are the build systems. > > I originally thought a build system would figure out which dependencies are > needed based on the project lockfile (has versions and hashes) and then

Re: Question about build systems and programming language dependencies

2025-04-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Mark, On Mon, Mar 31 2025, Mark L. wrote: > I like it so far Me, too! > It seems that package dependencies specified in the languages > lockfiles need to be duplicated into the guix package definitions, > which I think means any dependency of the project needs to be packaged > in Guix, & any

Re: scanning in GNU Guix

2025-04-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Fri, Apr 04 2025, gfp wrote: > It is always a nuisance, when I need a scan, Sometimes, it's easier to purchase hardware that works well with Linux, for examply by buying unwanted equipment from individuals or businesses. Kind regards Felix

GNU Guix build packages bypassing check stage as if check stage results successful

2025-04-06 Thread Andy Tai
Hi, I know GNU Guix encourages running the unit tests during the build process. This makes sense for core GNU packages like GNU coreutils that mainly operates on file systems or Unix ttys; but for GUI programs, this often causes problems because the requirements of GUI environment may not be availa

Fwd: GNU Guix build packages bypassing check stage as if check stage results successful

2025-04-06 Thread Andy Tai
Hi, I know GNU Guix encourages running the unit tests during the build process. This makes sense for core GNU packages like GNU coreutils that mainly operates on file systems or Unix ttys; but for GUI programs, this often causes problems because the requirements of GUI environment may not be availa

Re: adding Samba to config.scm

2025-04-06 Thread Ignas Lapėnas
> So what do I have to do in Guix to add a new user and create a samba > login for that user? My guess would be to add the user like other regular users in Guix ``` (operating-system (users (cons* (user-account (name "myuser") (comment "M

Re: Question about build systems and programming language dependencies

2025-04-06 Thread Rutherther
Hi Mark, I would like to add to the answers you already got. "Mark L." writes: > Hi everyone! > > I am trying out Guix to build software, I like it so far, but what confuses > me are the build systems. > > I originally thought a build system would figure out which dependencies are > needed

Re: adding Samba to config.scm

2025-04-06 Thread gfp
Hi, I added 3 sentences in my Samba part to my config.scm: guest account = gast create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0755 (service samba-service-type (samba-configuration (enable-smbd? #t) (config-file (plain-file "smb.conf" "\