Re: QT install and search paths

2017-09-02 Thread 宋文武
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 27.08.2017 um 18:49 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > > It is searched in several sub-directories of > /tmp/guix-build-…/qtwayland-opensource-src-5.9.1/plugins/platforms/../../../ > (which is the > /tmp/guix-build-qtwayland-5.9.1.drv-0

Re: let's talk about SLIM

2017-09-02 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
"Bernd S." writes: > I also agree that the replacement should be something really lightweight and > independent, > I really like the suggestion of OpenBSDs xenodm for example. I did a quick test trying to build xenodm on GuixSD. I believe the code has some OpenBSDisms

Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Overall, NM seems to work better than Wicd, whether or not one uses >> GNOME. Even if the issue Chris Marusich mentioned still applies, I >> think switching to NM in ‘%desktop-services’ would be a

News from the GNU Hackers Meeting

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I don’t think this was discussed yet, but we had a good time last week-end at the GHM! It was pretty much a retreat at the countryside, which was fun and pleasant. There was a bunch of Guix hackers, and around 30 people in total. With help from Ricardo, I gave a high-level talk on

Re: The future of 'guix environment'

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy! "Thompson, David" skribis: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> This would make “guix environment” stateful: if you have something in >> cache, that’s what you get (it could be old versions of “foo” and >> “bar”),

Re: The future of 'guix environment'

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Thompson, David writes: > >> Ricardo, you are correct that we would lose the ability to use the >> guix.scm file for both 'guix environment' and 'guix build'. In >> practice I don't actually use my guix.scm file this way, so

Re: ‘core-updates’ is back!

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey Marius, Marius Bakke skribis: > However I tried cherry-picking the two commits and there was only one > trivial conflict in gcc/c-family/c-common.h (apart from ChangeLog > updates, which were omitted). Patch attached and building! Woohoo! > I also prefer going

Re: Fetching patches as origins instead of copying them into the Guix Git repo

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Marius Bakke skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:52:49PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >>> Side note: I think we should start adding patches as origins instead of >>> copying them wholesale, to try and keep the git

Re: 03/09: gnu: util-linux: Update to 2.30.1.

2017-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) skribis: > mbakke pushed a commit to branch staging > in repository guix. > > commit 66d4cd7978d41cfde5047f281dc17693bbd4610e > Author: Marius Bakke > Date: Sat Jul 29 18:34:15 2017 +0200 > > gnu: util-linux: Update to 2.30.1.

Re: elisp packages discovery

2017-09-02 Thread Alex Kost
Maxim Cournoyer (2017-09-01 10:49 -0400) wrote: > Hi Alex! > > Alex Kost writes: > >> Maxim Cournoyer (2017-08-15 12:08 -0400) wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Alex Kost wrote: >> [...] >>> A side note: this is one of the reasons why I

Re: Fetching patches as origins instead of copying them into the Guix Git repo

2017-09-02 Thread Alex Vong
Marius Bakke writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:52:49PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >>> Side note: I think we should start adding patches as origins instead of >>> copying them wholesale, to try and keep the git repository

Re: [go-build-system]

2017-09-02 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:17:15AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > I have a work-in-progress of a go-build-system with packages for > Syncthing up here: > > https://github.com/lfam/guix/tree/wip-syncthing > > It seems to work until the Syncthing build fails like this: I'm *very* happy to report

Re: Question about multiple licenses

2017-09-02 Thread Alex Vong
Dave Love writes: > Indeed. Not only do you need to list the licences (according to all > "legal advice" I've seen for distributions), but normally also > distribute the relevant licence texts, even for permissive licences if > they require that (e.g. BSD). I raised this

Re: QT install and search paths

2017-09-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.08.2017 um 18:49 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > It is searched in several sub-directories of > /tmp/guix-build-…/qtwayland-opensource-src-5.9.1/plugins/platforms/../../../ > (which is the /tmp/guix-build-qtwayland-5.9.1.drv-0 directory), but > not in …/lib. I did not find out how to Uff, I

Re: Guix - installation script

2017-09-02 Thread Christopher Baines
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:36:17 +0100 Christopher Baines wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:51:12 +0100 > Hellseher wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > That's great, thank you! > > > > I'll go through all suggestions and make required changes as soon > > as possible.

Re: 01/03: gnu: lzip: Update to 1.19.

2017-09-02 Thread Marius Bakke
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > nckx pushed a commit to branch staging > in repository guix. > > commit 0963e3e450e85e3cf59b92fd28c771e8cbaaee2a > Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice > Date: Sun Jul 23 19:05:45 2017 +0200 > > gnu: lzip: Update to 1.19. > >

Re: ‘core-updates’ is back!

2017-09-02 Thread Marius Bakke
Marius Bakke writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Marius Bakke skribis: >>> Efraim Flashner writes: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:10:42PM +0200,

Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

2017-09-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo skribis: > >> It seems like all GNOME users are ready for this change. I tried it out >> locally and it's quite nice. Patch like this: >> >> diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm >> index

Re: let's talk about SLIM

2017-09-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> ng0 writes: >> >>> It seems to me as if SLIM can be dropped once we >>> have something else in place. Would you agree? >> >> It would be good to keep a display manager service that is