Re: Rename glibc-utf8-locales to glibc-limited-utf8-locales

2022-02-26 Thread Rovanion Luckey
> The package description reads as: > >This package provides a small sample of UTF-8 locales mostly useful >in test environments. > While true does not change that the name is, in my opinion, misleading. > Perhaps it should simply be marked as a hidden package (not discoverable > via

Re: Rename glibc-utf8-locales to glibc-limited-utf8-locales

2022-02-25 Thread Rovanion Luckey
I prefer names to not be lying about what they are, despite any documentation. It is a UX problem if the user has to search the documentation for any given package name before installing it, just to make sure that it contains what it says on the can so to speak. The name glibc-utf8-locales when

Rename glibc-utf8-locales to glibc-limited-utf8-locales

2022-02-08 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi, I have on different occasions had the issue of the package manager Guix hinting that locales were not installed or that GUIX_LOCPATH was not set, even though they were. Today I went to the bottom of the issue [0] and have found what in my opinion is the root cause: Despite its name, the

Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

2021-05-04 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hello rekado! I saved your document in a file “doc.tex” and then ran this > command successfully: > > guix environment --pure --ad-hoc \ > texlive-base \ > texlive-url \ > texlive-latex-hyperref \ > texlive-fonts-ec \ > texlive-lm \ > texlive-babel-swedish

How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

2021-05-02 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi, I'm trying to define a Guix environment that enables the following LaTeX document to be compiled: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > \usepackage[swedish]{babel} > \usepackage{url} > \usepackage{color} > \usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue,

Re: Confusing error messages from guix when loading a user scheme file that fails to load another file

2021-02-26 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Thank you for your kind help. Thanks to you Zimon and Adrianos who answered off-list. I was able to whip up a patch that should help future users avoid my confusion: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46805

Confusing error messages from guix when loading a user scheme file that fails to load another file

2021-02-21 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi, Today I encountered an issue with Guix's user interface. I was trying to load a Scheme file defining a development environment with `guix environment --ad-hoc --load=file.scm`, but Guix kept telling me that the file did not exist even though I could swear it did: > $ head -n 1

Re: [RFC] Package of Nomacs

2021-01-02 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi again Leo! That doesn't say much, because `guix environment` provides little > isolation. You might try with pure environments, but the better way of > replicating the build environment is using `-K`. > Ran in a `guix environment --pure --container` and it still built successfully. > I

Re: [RFC] Package of Nomacs

2021-01-02 Thread Rovanion Luckey
wp4bzb8b-nomacs-3.16.224/lib" "-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON" "-DENABLE_TRANSLATIO\ NS=true" "-DUSE_SYSTEM_QUAZIP=true" "-DENABLE_OPENCV=true" make -j 8 ./nomacs For some reason that is different than when `guix package --from-file` runs. Den fre 1 jan. 2021

Re: [RFC] Package of Nomacs

2021-01-01 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi Leo and thank you for explaining. And hi again guix-devel. I've now rewritten the file according to your comments except that its still its own file/module, something I'll fix later. Now I'm stuck trying to figure out a build error after going from the tarball release through url-fetch to the

Re: [RFC] Package of Nomacs

2020-12-31 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi Leo and thank you for your comments. The nomacs package should probably go to gnu/packages/image- > viewers.scm. > Yup. > Use git-fetch instead and don't recurse into submodules. You will > likely encounter some errors, because it doesn't seem as though nomacs > expects you to have its

[RFC] Package of Nomacs

2020-12-30 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Hi, I ended up working on a package for the image viewer Nomacs over Jul and would like some feedback on what I've managed so far. One thing that's missing is the plugins that are developed in a separate git repository [0] and not included in the source tarballs of the main repository [1]. Ideas

[PATCH] Added detail to instructions on generating pre-inst-env

2020-12-25 Thread Rovanion Luckey
From: Rovanion Luckey Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:33:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: contributing: Added detail to instructions on generating pre-inst-env The file ./configure does not exist before the new developer runs ./bootstrap. --- doc/contributing.texi | 17 + 1 file changed, 9