Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?

2022-06-20 Thread kiasoc5
Hooray, greetd has been merged! [1] However, according to upstream the greeter user only needs to be in the video and greeter groups. [2] Whereas the guix definition for the greeter user has many more groups: (define %greetd-accounts (list (user-account (name "greeter")

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-20 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, here are my reasons for reviewing patches very very rarely- Basically I share Brian Cully's experiences. I'm using Thunderbird for mail and my system is set up to emacs could send out mails. I tried debbugs from time to time and for me it is disgusting: * too complicated to get to the

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-20 Thread Arun Isaac
>> Also, should we remove old/broken/unused/rarely-used packages from Guix? >> In the past, I have packaged and contributed very niche packages which >> probably no one else uses, and sometimes even I don't use anymore. But, >> these packages continue to stay in Guix and add to the maintenance

Re: LibreSSL?

2022-06-20 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:17:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > Am Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:41:11AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > > At first sight, it looks like an easy-to-maintain package: no > > dependencies, few users, stable API. > > > > I tried to update it to 3.5.1 and was

Re: RISCV porting effort

2022-06-20 Thread Pjotr Prins
Chris Batten created the slides and presented twice. He writes: We presented our work on using Guix in computer architecture research at the gem5 users workshop an d the Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V ... it was awesome to have Pjotr join in person for CARRV too! Pjotr