Hello! I'm new to Guix, and I chose to use it for the principles of it (linux-libre and such), but against a better judgement of my technical incompetence. So.
A lot of things I was used to in more mainstream distros are not packaged here and, after reading the manual and learning about how I could write my own packages, and with `guix import` for short-cut, I decided to give it a try. Then another. Then another — in all of them I failed miserably, and couldn't make any sense of the log files… I let it go for a while, but then I thought that some packages should be easier to write than the ones I tried. So, I started looking around for what I could do, and I realised: there are no plugin managers for neovim. Then I went to GitHub, and looked at `*packer.nvim* <https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim>`, and… …is it feasible? — this is how `*packer.nvim*` is supposed to be installed on regular, imperative distros: *Step One:* issue this command: *git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim\ <https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim\> ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim* *Step Two:* write a `*/path/to/neovim/plugins/lua/plugins.lua*` that contains: *-- Only required if you have packer configured as `opt`* *vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]]return require('packer').startup(function() -- Packer can manage itself use 'wbthomason/packer.nvim'* * -- Configure other plugins* *…* *end)* *Step three:* include this line — `*lua require('plugins')*` — in the file `*init.vim*`, wherever it is. *My questions:* 1. *Step one* seems to be just a simple file download to an appropriate directory — is that assessment correct? 2. If so, would it be hard to generalize this so that it can be installed either system-wide or per-user? I guess there is a Guix idiomatic way to accomplish what the above git command is doing, right? 3. *Step two*, I imagine, should be easy if there isn't already a ` *plugin.lua*` file, right? What if there is? 4. Is it acceptable if the installation process doesn't look into the plugins directory-tree to try and automatically create entries for them in `*plugin.lua*`? 5. Also, in *Step two*, the first line in `*plugin.lua*` is required only if a certain condition is met. Is it OK to leave it there if the condition is not met? 6. The problems in *Step three* seem to be the same as in *Step two*. Except that maybe it could be assumed that, since `*neovim*` is a dependency, the file `*init.vim*` would necessarily exist? 7. From what I could tell from `*packer.nvim*`'s repo, the only dependency is on neovim version 0.5 or later — is there anything else I would need to work on or check out? I will be grateful to anyone who helps me to write my first package... Regards, Cássio ----- Faculdade de Letras - UFG *“* *Ou a gente se Raôni, ou a gente se Sting**”*
