Want help with writing package recipe

2014-03-06 Thread Joshua Branson
Hello, I'm trying to write a recipe to install GNU typist: http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ Just to be clear, one cannot install gtypist with guix package -i gtypist, because guix does not currently have a recipe for gtypist. Anyway, I used guix download path to tarball

Re: [Basic Linux Question]: Is it possible to have two init system?

2017-01-23 Thread Joshua Branson
You could just install the guix package manager. Some GNU/Linux distributions package GuixSD. If yours doesn't then you could install from source. On 01/23/2017 11:55 AM, rohit yadav wrote: ​Hi, Is it possible to run two init processes? I believe not, but PID 1 (primary init system) can

Re: Ready for Guile 2.2!

2017-04-22 Thread Joshua Branson
So are you building (aka compiling) libreoffice, certbot, and xmonad in essentially 2 seconds? That sounds a little too fast... On 04/20/2017 11:21 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Thu 20 Apr 2017 14:35, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>>

Re: GNUsocial package?

2017-08-15 Thread Joshua Branson
Just out of curiosity, how do you override those directories? Is it something you configure at compile time, or some sly links? -- Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: food for thought: ebuild importer?

2017-08-10 Thread Joshua Branson
ng0 writes: Well I know that the Parabola devs do not use the AUR. Possibly because they think that whitelisting free software is easier than blacklisting proprietary software. > ng0 transcribed 2.1K bytes: >> So a very long time ago I was wondering: What if we could >>

A small documentational change to the contributing section

2017-07-15 Thread Joshua Branson
rom 3a49e32fc30480c36ea69add42cd7e2e94669a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson <bran...@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:06:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] * I updated the contributing section to include cloning the guix repo. --- doc/contributing.texi | 11 --- 1 file c

Re: Trouble with UEFI installation

2017-07-22 Thread Joshua Branson
Hey Andrew! Don't be discouraged! I have the same issue. Definitely disable booting legacy boot. That will really help you get started. I haven't actually successfully installed guix via UEFI yet, but hopefully I will soon. My problem is that I am dual booting guixSD and Arch. Arch is

Re: adwaita-icon-theme issue, cannot install GuixSD

2017-08-02 Thread Joshua Branson
This is probably a question that should be asked on help-g...@gnu.org. guix-devel is really more for development quesitions, not trouble shooting. On 08/02/2017 07:27 AM, 8gw72f+eiv9z4mpir...@guerrillamail.com wrote: > I cannot install GuixSD because adwaita-icon-theme is broken (unexcepted

Re: GSoC - "Continuing re-write of daemon in Guile Scheme" update

2018-06-11 Thread Joshua Branson
Don't give up! I'm sorry that life has thrown you a curse ball, and I respect your need to help your family. You have still got a lot of potential. And with a little bit of effort, you certainly can contribute to Guix in a meaningful way!

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Catonano writes: > I just published my latest blog post > > In this post I discuss Guix > > And I discuss Guile too > > I understand that the language is strong and I expect someone to be upset > > But I feel this is due > > Happy reading > >

Re: GSoC: Adding a web interface similar to the Hydra web interface

2018-06-13 Thread Joshua Branson
Tatiana Sholokhova writes: > Hello, > > Thank you for your reviews! > > I've just fixed codestyle issues and replaced HTML5 preamble with XHTML. Just cause I'm curious, why XHTML instead HTML5? Is XHTML better to parse? (This question comes from non guix developer by the way. Just an

Re: [bootstrappable] Mes 0.15 released

2018-06-13 Thread Joshua Branson
"Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)" writes: >> I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.15, representing 45 commits >> over 3 weeks. The GNU toolchain is getting bootstrapped! wow! > > Great work as always Janneke > -Jeremiah

Re: GSoC: Adding a web interface similar to the Hydra web interface

2018-06-13 Thread Joshua Branson
Gábor Boskovits writes: > Joshua Branson ezt írta (időpont: 2018. jún. 13., Sze > 15:52): > > Tatiana Sholokhova writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Thank you for your reviews! > > > > I've just fixed codestyle issues and replaced HTML5 preamble

Re: Customize GuixSD: Use Stock SSH Agent Everywhere!

2018-05-28 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> This kind of "tutorials" is useful enough it probably deserves a >> mention in the Guix manual. What do you think? > > The manual is mostly a reference. I wouldn’t mind having a separate > Texinfo

Re: hardening

2018-01-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Is this something anyone can start using now? Like I can modify my config.scm file somehow and start enjoying a hardened guix? On Mon, Jan 29, 2018, at 4:44 AM, n...@n0.is wrote: > Hi, > > as we've long talked and not really taken action on hardening builds > I've started working on an opt-in

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Joshua Branson
By no means am I a developer, but I can try to explain some things... A profile is a collection of packages. Each user on the system has a profile of his packages. So Jerry has a profile of Emacs 24, Iceweasel 50, etc. Jill also uses the system, but she has packages Tetris 5.4, Emacs 23, etc.

Re: New Shepherd release?

2018-01-01 Thread Joshua Branson
May I ask what some of the changes are? On Mon, Jan 1, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Danny, > > Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > > > can we make a new Shepherd release which includes the latest fixes (to > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ and the Guix

Re: Bleeding edge documentation

2018-06-20 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > >> swedebugia transcribed 1.0K bytes: >>> Hi >>> >>> I would like to have a continously updated documentation for guix on the >>> webpage in addition to the release documentation. >>> >>> I'm trying to read up on guix and the guix.texi file is

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Joshua Branson
Amin Bandali writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's >>> almost ready[2]. >> >> The TODO list for convenience: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> * There is still some data transmitted

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Leo, > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 >>> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. >> >> I agree with your points about why

Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > > Soon we hope to finish the MesCC bootstrap from M2-Planet and then we > will have a complete bootstrap path from 250byte hex0 all the way up to > gcc ^_^ Wow! Just Wow! I have a question though. It sounds like a bunch of this is assembly...Is assembly portable?

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Fis Trivial writes: > Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. > > I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but > some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to > Guix based system and development environment. Most notably

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Fis Trivial <ybbs.da...@hotmail.com> writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Fis Trivial <ybbs.da...@hotmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. >>> >>> My daily routine is doing machine learning, which requires GPU

Re: 05/06: gnu: rust: Don't build for "native" arch on ARM.

2018-04-17 Thread Joshua Branson
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Efraim and Danny, > > dan...@scratchpost.org (Danny Milosavljevic) writes: > >> dannym pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 67ca98ec7818f5b63fe041bfee4ef10826635685 >> Author: Efraim Flashner >>

Re: create a symlink

2018-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
I guess I'm a little behind. What's this install-hurd procedure? Is this getting the hurd running in a vm on a guixSD system? Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Rene, > >> But Guix waits for a string, is it possible to use a package to do the >> symlink? > > Not

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-25 Thread Joshua Branson
Tobias Platen writes: > On 25.04.2018 19:17, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but >>> some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to >>> Guix based system and development

Re: Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems?

2018-10-19 Thread Joshua Branson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> I noticed that in the (guix derivations) module, >> 'build-expression->derivation' is marked as deprecated. However, I see >> that all build systems currently living in the (guix build-system ...) >> namespaces are

Re: Dual Boot GuixSd along side other preexisting distros

2018-10-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Tomáš Čech writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:55:50PM +0530, Nalin Ranjan wrote: >>  Hi Guys, >> Can you guys please help me with a bit of understanding? >> >> I have a ThinkPad T410 on which I am trying to do this. Currently I have a >> dual boot configuration running Ubuntu

Re: more space on berlin.guixsd.org

2018-11-11 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hey Guix, > > today we finally succeeded in attaching an external storage array to the > server known as berlin.guixsd.org. I relocated the /gnu/store directory > from the local 1TB disk to the external storage. The result is that we > now have 36TB of free space on

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-03 Thread Joshua Branson
Nils Gillmann writes: > Joshua Branson transcribed 2.3K bytes: >> Amin Bandali writes: >> >> > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> > >> >> There is also the Brave browser >> >> https://brave.com/ > > It would very likely not be ac

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Joshua Branson
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Mark, > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > If anyone wants a simple way to contribute to getting Rust bootstrapped, > please provide some cpu time to help with compiling Rust :) I've got a 4 year old AMD APU 4 core sitting at my

Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support

2018-09-24 Thread Joshua Branson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi there! > > Christopher Lemmer Webber skribis: > > > We could also mention MINIX, which many of us are already using daily. > :-) That's pretty awesome! I didn't realize gnu developers were using MINIX. Also perhaps in a few years, x15 may turn into

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Clément Lassieur writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 >>> Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> >>> >>> If anyone wants a simple way to

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-23 Thread Joshua Branson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Hi! > > Yay! I think the way forward to reduce them further that I like best is > to assume Guile and start building a Gash/Geesh and the other utilities > from there. > Can you link to Gash/Geesh? I can't find it via google. > > Thanks

Re: Brain storming cool Guix features

2019-01-05 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> I had some cool ideas/features for things that GuixSD could potentially >> add, and I wanted to share. Are any of these possible? >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme >> (operating system >> (keymap "

Re: Mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system

2019-01-17 Thread Joshua Branson
is this: > https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/1865 > > If we package the langpacks and dictionaries from the upstream links I > hope we can update them with "guix refresh". This sounds like a splendid idea! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Joshua Branson
east). > (surprisingly we do not seem to have a lot of duplicate bugs though) There is a nice web version that someone wrote. I forget where it is, but it's really slick! > To sum it up: lets not ruin what we have by rushing ahead and ending > beta too early. I reluctantly agree. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Going through the bugs...

2018-12-18 Thread Joshua Branson
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > Hi > > Here are more visual statistics: > https://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/guix.html How did you generate the graphs? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Anyone working on packaging Firejail?

2018-12-20 Thread Joshua Branson
: you don't have to type guix environment --container icecat? You just type "icecat?" Thanks > > https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/CONTAINERS.org#browser -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: New Gash build Bash without Bash, Coreutils, and a few others

2018-12-22 Thread Joshua Branson
“configure” scripts, I think it could be avoided. > > You can see the latest code at <https://gitlab.com/samplet/geesh> (yes, > the URL needs an update). The work described in this message is on the > “wip-bootstrap” branch. > > -- Tim > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Plan for Guix security (was Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support)

2018-12-26 Thread Joshua Branson
> now). I think this is something we can do now. > > My idea is to create a new guix module (guix build hardening) which > should contains various build flags. Then we should modifiy each build > system to import from this new module and fix any build error caused by > it. We can a

Re: video status

2018-12-16 Thread Joshua Branson
cumentation to share! Thanks for doing this! > > Regards :) > Laura > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Video of Talk: "Everyday Use of GNU Guix"

2018-12-04 Thread Joshua Branson
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Guix! > > As previously announced [1], on November 10th I gave a talk at SeaGL [2] > titled "Everyday Use of GNU Guix" [3]. > > I've made a recording of the talk available here: Thanks for sharing! > >

Re: Guile-JSON now seems to be a required dependency

2018-12-02 Thread Joshua Branson
>> >> Yes, we decided to make it a hard requirement. I'm working on a patch >> to follow through. I believe I created such a patch. >From 2d860d1889b6c4bafe3d605ee47f9c93c3e91091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 08:36:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add

Re: Dual Boot GuixSd along side other preexisting distros

2018-12-02 Thread Joshua Branson
Chris Marusich writes: > Tomáš Čech writes: > >> In my system configuration I have this hack I found somewhere: >> >> (bootloader >> (bootloader-configuration >> (bootloader >>(bootloader >> (inherit grub-bootloader) (installer #~(const #t)) >> >> so it doesn't install bootloader

Re: Guile-JSON now seems to be a required dependency

2018-12-01 Thread Joshua Branson
Timothy Sample writes: If it is as new dependency, ya'll can use this texinfo patch that adds guile-json as a dependency and alphabetizes the required packages: Thanks, Joshua >From 2d860d1889b6c4bafe3d605ee47f9c93c3e91091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2

Re: Adding a section about security in the guix manual

2019-01-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Joshua, > > Thank you for taking the initiative! Basically, if you think you can > improve the docs, give it a try, submit a patch to guix-patc...@gnu.org, > and we can go from there. Sounds good. I will do that. > > Joshua Branson writes

Re: Brain storming cool Guix features

2019-01-07 Thread Joshua Branson
'once-a-week) >> ...) >> #+END_SRC > > As said by Ricardo, currently a cron job might just be enough. In the > long term, a tool to manage updating (pause, schedule, configure stuff) > could be useful. > >> -- >> Joshua Branson >> Sent from Emacs and Gnu

awesome window manager configuration

2019-01-04 Thread Joshua Branson
.layout.suit.tile.left" "awful.layout.suit.tile.top" %base-services)) #+END_SRC What do you all think? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Brain storming cool Guix features

2019-01-13 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> I had some cool ideas/features for things that GuixSD could potentially >> add, and I wanted to share. Are any of these possible? >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme >> (operating system >> (keymap "

Adding a section about security in the guix manual

2019-01-09 Thread Joshua Branson
t I do intend to put it on my TODO list. Is there something else I should add or that I am missing? Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

2018-12-19 Thread Joshua Branson
r to help you fix these kinds of Hurd-related issues, but I would probably need some mentoring to make it happen. If you'd be willing to show me how to help you, then I'd like to try. Thanks, > > Can the current master build `guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu > bootstrap-tarballs` ? > > Manolis > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

2019-01-26 Thread Joshua Branson
/gnu/store/r583x6jd6qlb7im42c0awmj6jvi1g13c-icecat-60.3.0-gnu1.drv... #END_SRC P.S. jmacs is my attempt to have a "custom" Emacs. It's basically Emacs with additional modules installed. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Guix on a microkernel

2019-04-02 Thread Joshua Branson
rs, modern filesystem support, etc. > > Ludo’. > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread Joshua Branson
"chromedriver"))) > + (replace 'install > + (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys) > + (let* ((out(assoc-ref outputs "out")) > +(bin(string-append out "/bin")) > +

Re: New episode of Libre Lounge out interviewing Ludovic about Guix!

2019-06-22 Thread Joshua Branson
ly, Mes, etc. > > > https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-23-guix-with-ludovic-court%C3%A8s.html > > Have a listen! Tell your friends! > - Chris Chris' show in general is pretty awesome. Ya'll should check out some of his other episodes! > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
o sway with no graphical login manager and it works swimmingly. > > Tobias > > [1] > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom > [2] https://www.raptorcs.com/ > [3] https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: User Services

2019-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
emacs... Then I could connect via emacsclient. What's the status on that? For now do I just need to run another instance of the shepherd as myself when I login? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Alternative VPN Clients

2019-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
than you think. :) Why don't you give it a try, and if you run into any issues, you could ask for help? > > Thank you. > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual

2019-09-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Perhaps we should add the verbose option. This will signal to users that the command is updating the font cache. I also went ahead and changed command in the translated manuals as well. Thanks, Joshua >From 7ee67dcfec6bda2f66fcb1fbb4445444fb41e2e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Brans

Re: fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual

2019-09-11 Thread Joshua Branson
a difference > in the real world. > So I went ahead and changed "fc-cache -f" to "fc-cache -frv". I also only applied the change for the English manual. I believe the commit message is in a proper changelog format. What do you think? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual

2019-09-11 Thread Joshua Branson
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: Here's the actual patch: >From 3836c589f48910cb37d6a04d2bc778004aaf0628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:16:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add verbose and recursive command flag * doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): "

Re: default GNOME desktop background

2019-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
the GDM background. Not really sure how to access the latter, > though. I know that at least on my machine I have a grub-image.png file in my store. I don't know if that helps... find /gnu/store -name '*grub-image*' > > Also remember to follow all the packaging/patch guidelines :) > > Regards, > > Leo > > [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-01 Thread Joshua Branson
uix to download substitutes via IPFS mean that one could update one's system faster? Thanks, Joshua > > Thoughts? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Joshua Branson
> > I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and > `(compose …)` blocks from `gdm-service-type` to `slim-service-type`. But it's > just a guess. I've tried to define `my-slim-service-type` in my system config, > but failed! > > Any help will be welcome! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-02-25 Thread Joshua Branson
re, plus the need to keep > things on track! If someone wants to be the “master of time” and make > sure we don’t enter and endless add-feature/break/fix loop, that’d be > welcome! > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-03-06 Thread Joshua Branson
onfigure /path/to/your/config.scm > My problem was that I could not do a guix pull, because I could not boot into the laptop. Grub would load, and display Guix System boot option, but after that it would show a blank screen. Essentially how do you fix a laptop that will not boot guix, via a guix usb install image? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-03-06 Thread Joshua Branson
because it couldn't find such a file or directory. > > The second issue: > When trying to run an application using xfce panel, it throws an error > "Couldn't run /gnu/store/-exo-0.12.6/bin/exo-open --launch > TerminalEmulator" It can't find the file/directory. > > Hope this helps. > > Jan Wielkiewicz -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: GNU Guix ported to powerp64-linux-gnu

2020-02-24 Thread Joshua Branson
p-tarballs > > Next steps are getting things to work on powerpc64le-linux-gnu (shouldnt > be too hard now) then rebase everything onto core-updates! > > Leo > > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Install script supporting sysV init?

2020-02-05 Thread Joshua Branson
I've got an old ThinkPad T400. The motherboard supports 8GB of RAM. I think I bought it off of ebay for $50-80. Does your old thinkpad's motherboard support more RAM? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: SIP Client for Guix

2020-02-20 Thread Joshua Branson
I personally use twinkle. It works just fine for me. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Feedback guix-hurd-20200401.img with qemu

2020-04-06 Thread Joshua Branson
allow you to start X. However, many Hurd developers code in the Hurd without X. X is not needed to code in the kernel for example... -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus P.S. Please do not send emails to my inbox; I am subscribed to guix-devel. Thanks

Re: Adding a %desktop-packages

2020-04-03 Thread Joshua Branson
, there should be some %desktop-packages that most users will want installed by default. Packages would include a web browser, one system font, etc. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus P.S. I am subscribed to Guix-devel, please just respond via To: guix-devel@gnu.org. Thanks

Thank you for your leadership Ludo

2020-03-31 Thread Joshua Branson
Hey Ludo! I have been hanging out in #guix recently, and I have submitted a few guix bug reports (not many). I just wanted to thank you for the community that you have built with Guix. I have done some minor volunteer work with other free software projects, but those other free software

Re: Medium-term road map

2020-04-30 Thread Joshua Branson
ay something like "yeah I've thought of this awesome idea that will result in a 10x performance gain"...and "oh yeah, it'll only take me a few days to do it." What's awesome is he is such a genius, that he'll probably pull it off. :) -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: M2-Planet v1.6.0 and mescc-tools v1.0.0 released

2020-05-01 Thread Joshua Branson
LF binaries for Knight, x86, AMD64, armv7l and > aarch64 > > and be bootstrapped from a sub 250byte hex0 hex assembler and a 737byte shell > > -Jeremiah > AWESOME! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Extending Guix without using the Guile load path

2020-03-17 Thread Joshua Branson
Ludovic Courtès writes: > > (Though eventually, I do think something like Guix Home should be part > of Guix itself. :-)) May I ask is Guix Home similar to systemd homed? Or do they have slightly different objectives? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

2020-10-14 Thread Joshua Branson
packages without having to wait so long for the xdg mime database to build, please let me know, and I'll re-make the video. https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/c0dfb36a-a84b-4363-8b1b-17aeadd4aaaf Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https

Re: Outreachy internship

2020-10-13 Thread Joshua Branson
I haven't really followed what others have proposed, but you could certainly get some ideas here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2020 I personally think it would be great to see some improvement to the GNU Shepherd. It could use some love. :) -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

2020-10-13 Thread Joshua Branson
I would describe my video set up as pretty simple: $ wf-recorder --audio If you watch any of my below videos, you'll see me take breaks like, "Oh hold on just a second, I think my landlord is knocking at my front door. I'll be right back." -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

2020-10-12 Thread Joshua Branson
I send a ton of time making videos online, so I can probably spare some time to do this. I'll have a video posted in a day or two. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

2020-10-18 Thread Joshua Branson
are calling this an "issue", your suggestion to use numerous packages seems like a "work-around" rather than a "fix". Again, I'm not complaining. I'm just offering my thoughts. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com

Re: [BLOG] Running Guix System on a Linode Server

2020-10-10 Thread Joshua Branson
set up is fantastic! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

Re: Guix Europe yearly assembly minutes increasing membership

2020-10-10 Thread Joshua Branson
of the FSF, which would give them the 5 email aliases, an irc nick, and I think a meet.jit.si instance. What do ya'll think? Joshua 1 I've got an example webpage at my site: https://gnucode.me/services.html -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com

Re: Translating the web site

2020-10-07 Thread Joshua Branson
to lose a little bit of sleep to get the word out. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want.&q

Re: Diverse Double-Compiling, --with-c-toolchain and trusting trust

2020-10-14 Thread Joshua Branson
Hey zimoun! This reminds me of the reflections on trusting trust: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf If you get something like this working, and you'd like some help assembling it into a blog post, please let me know! Thanks, -- Joshua

Re: Guix Europe yearly assembly minutes increasing membership

2020-10-11 Thread Joshua Branson
That sounds about right. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers OFF TOPIC PRAISE

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Thanks for working on this! This is a super awesome feature! Best of luck! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Questions about Git and workflow

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua Branson
You might be interested in my video where I contribute a tiny patch to the guix cookbook. I'm sure that my workflow could use some improvement, but you might find some ideas here: https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/3c1df4c5-392a-44a9-b615-bab533a66231 -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs

Re: ‘xdg-mime-database’ profile hook is slow

2020-10-27 Thread Joshua Branson
z1amvwqm687j3h2-mako-1.4 ungoogled-chromium 86.0.4240.75-0.c34a56d out /gnu/store/m0s9mrbirbssis5nn9agx8k4sl2ck0y9-ungoogled-chromium-86.0.4240.75-0.c34a56d #+end_example Thanks, -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_br

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

2020-10-27 Thread Joshua Branson
So I've spent an hour today making a new video. It's about 10 minutes long. I'll cut out some bits of it via video editors. Just an update. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels &quo

Re: video stream of updating newsboat to 2.20.1

2020-07-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Thanks for doing this! I've got some videos* of me creating guix patches for the cookbook. It's nice to see a more competent developer share their work flow! * shameless plug: https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound

2020-12-15 Thread Joshua Branson
MB/s snappy 2.073 560 MB/s1790 MB/s Would snappy be easier to use than Zstandard? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you

Re: Guix now compiles on my Talos II

2020-11-12 Thread Joshua Branson
Does most software compile for it? Are you running gnome? Or something else? Thanks, -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other peopl

Re: Guide! Help! Using guix, or GNU/Linux, for secrecy, privacy.

2020-11-05 Thread Joshua Branson
...@gnu.org. Thanks, Joshua P.S. Sorry if linking to the Arch GNU/Linux wiki is frowned upon, but it still is the best wiki I've come across. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you

Re: Guix in Debian!

2021-01-23 Thread Joshua Branson
Awesome! Congrats! -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get

Re: Guix in Debian!

2021-01-28 Thread Joshua Branson
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > > Someone on IRC recently asked whether one could use dpkg/apt on Guix > (Guix System, I assume). What does it take to get dpkg working on Guix > System? I've never thought about that! That would be super cool! > > Thank you! > &g

Re: PowerShell core?

2021-02-02 Thread Joshua Branson
ershell-core-6-0-generally-available-ga-and-supported/ > > Cheers, > Yasu > -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatev

Re: problem with ruby-taskjuggler packaging and timezone

2021-06-14 Thread Joshua Branson
issue number in the bug tracker! And not lose this important contribution! Thanks again! -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever

Re: Substitutes from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org

2021-06-07 Thread Joshua Branson
-client-service-type) (service openssh-service-type (openssh-configuration (openssh openssh-sans-x) (port-number %my-desktop-services))) #+END

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