Re: Changes in the spending committee for the FSF Fund

2019-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > There’s a ledger for the Guix Europe non-profit¹, which is a separate > entity, but most of the transactions on the funds held at the FSF have > been made via Guix Europe. Another use of the FSF fund has been the > Outreachy internship (that predates the recent

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

2019-01-26 Thread Amin Bandali
> Any other opinion? I’d personally prefer if nss-certs were already available during installation; but if not, having a link in “System Installation” to instructions on how to safely install and set it up seems like a fair compromise. My 2¢.

Re: GuixDays: Perfect Setup: Speaker wanted

2019-01-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
swedebugia writes: [...] > Actually what is even nicer is emacs-debbugs and its ability to apply > patches from emails. The UI is somewhat lacking and I think we should > fork it so that it defaults to guix bugs and packages. There's no need to fork emacs-debbugs for that; it's already

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add snapper.

2019-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Does this really need to have its own branch? I prefer to keep the >> number of public branches on Savannah low. > > I can remove it any time. Is it really problematic? I wouldn’t say “problematic”, but I think it’s nicer to only have public branches for very

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add snapper.

2019-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > ambrevar pushed a commit to branch snapper > in repository guix. Does this really need to have its own branch? I prefer to keep the number of public branches on Savannah low. > commit b8413e5a3dc67eb064baf1a52fc34302c0a070c1 > Author: Pierre Neidhardt

Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

2019-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Joshua, > As an aside, should Icecat be on this list? This list is generated automatically. Icecat is a leaf package — nothing else depends on it. > I keep having to use "guix package > --do-not-upgrade=icecat -u", because Icecat takes forever to build, and > I'm not certain that I have

Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

2019-01-26 Thread John Soo
Hi, I think icecat is ok. I’m probably wrong about this but what I understand is that icecat is being rebuilt after the rust bootstrap got merged. Upgrading icecat now requires building several versions of the rust compiler. I hope a substitute becomes available soon since it really does take

Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

2019-01-26 Thread Joshua Branson
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > I’ve just added a new ‘--coverage’ option to ‘guix weather’. The goal > is to answer the question: “which important packages fail to build?”, or > at least, “which important packages have no substitutes?”. I believe > this is what we want to know in

New German PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 0.16.0.1)

2019-01-26 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the German team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/de.po (We can arrange things

Re: GuixDays: Perfect Setup: Speaker wanted

2019-01-26 Thread swedebugia
Pierre Neidhardt skrev: (25 januari 2019 23:22:47 CET) >"The Perfect Setup" sounds a bit exclusive in my opinion, there is a >whole world of >possibilities out there... :) Agreed. A recommended setup sounds better. > >That said, if it's only about Emacs+Geiser+Magit, I'd be happy to make >a

Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible

2019-01-26 Thread swedebugia
Ricardo Wurmus skrev: (25 januari 2019 23:05:51 CET) > >Hi swedebugia, > > writes: > >> Yesterday when I played around with guix I noticed that the default >> behavior of >> $ guix package --search >> guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument >after >> `--search' >> >> has

Re: Changes in the spending committee for the FSF Fund

2019-01-26 Thread swedebugia
"Ludovic Courtès" skrev: (25 januari 2019 23:57:21 CET) >Hi, > >Gábor Boskovits skribis: > >> swedebugia ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 24., >> Cs, 23:04): >>> >>> On 2018-09-08 17:11, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: >>> > Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> > >>> >> Thanks Mark for your time on the