Re: Overlays

2013-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
2013/8/30 Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: So I think Guix nearly supports overlays, no? :-) What do NixOS people mean by “overlay”? Well, I don’t think that wiki page has much authority. ;-) “Overlay” is not a term that is used in NixOS

Python 3 native-search-paths

2013-08-31 Thread Andreas Enge
I just noticed that there is a variable native-search-paths in python-2, which looks like it should be updated for python 3. However, when I modify the package accordingly, it is not recompiled. How come? Is this variable really needed? Andreas

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add tools for sysadmins: htop and dfc.

2013-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt tipec...@gmail.com skribis: This patch series adds htop and dfc, which are 'modern' versions of top and df. [...] gnu/packages/sysutils.scm | 70 + It just occurred to me that there’s already (gnu packages system), which

Re: Python 3 binaries

2013-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt tipec...@gmail.com skribis: On 08/31/2013 05:30 PM, Andreas Enge wrote: Hello, python 3 does not ship a python binary any more, just a binary called python3. That could be useful, since it would allow to install python 2 and 3 side by side. However, all packages relying on a

Re: Goals for 0.4

2013-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
jema...@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) skribis: I just realized that we can do even better: have --list-generations output recutils-formatted data (using ‘object-fields’). Then, if we do it right, the output can just be piped to ‘recsel’ to select entries of a certain age, to