If your window manager is only in your profile, then it won't be available for the display manager's login. Is there a workaround for that? Cássio ----- Faculdade de Letras - UFG *“* *Ou a gente se Raôni, ou a gente se Sting**”*
On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 2:40 AM raingloom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 20:40:07 +0000 > Gottfried <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I understood I should do a "guix pull" every week. > > > > But what is with "guix package -u" > > When I did it two days ago it took 6 hours. I couldn't swich off my > > laptop. So I can do it only when having a lot of time. > > Normally it took approx. 30 min > > If I don't need always the latest version, I can do it once a month > > or once in two month > > Is that okay? > > I'd recommend just skipping the few packages that take too long to > build. > Before upgrading, run guix package --upgrade --dry-run, and see what > would be downloaded and what would be built locally. > If there is something too large there, use the --do-not-upgrade flag. > It can be given multiple times. > > Also sometimes the reason something is built locally is because its > derivation failed on the substitute server, and I think it kinda sucks > that the user doesn't get warned about that, because building half of > Firefox just to see it fail with the same error message as it did on > the server is a huge waste of electricity, and also my time. > > > Do I have to do a "sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm" > > always after the "guix package -u"? > > Can I do it every month or every second month? when I don't need the > > latest version of packages? > > > > Gottfried > > > > I solve the latter by having a very lean system profile, only the bare > essentials are installed for the whole system, things like the window > manager are only in my user profile. > >
