Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Björn, Björn Höfling writes: > One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are > willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. > > I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything > like Icedove in the

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add systemd.

2018-04-03 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 03:33:22PM -0700, Joshua Branson wrote: > So this isn't an april fools joke? guixSD may move to systemd? It was a joke :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [ANN] "Practical, verifiable software freedom with GuixSD" presentation now available

2018-04-03 Thread myglc2
Hi Dave, On 03/29/2018 at 13:32 Ludovic Courtès writes: > "Thompson, David" skribis: > >> The FSF has uploaded my talk about Guix from this past weekend's >> LibrePlanet conference. If you're interested, you can watch it at >> this URL: >> >>

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:02:23 + Nils Gillmann wrote: > The patches would apply nowhere then, I'm sending a tarball of the > work. You can ignore the AGPL3 header, it's my default and for what I > upstream I relicense. > > This is Thunderbird 52.6.0, I fear that version newer than

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nils Gillmann writes: > Roel Janssen transcribed 509 bytes: >> >> Roel Janssen writes: >> >> > Ludovic Courtès writes: >> > >> >> Hi Roel, >> >> >> >> r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: >> >> >> >>> +(license (package-license perl >> >> >>

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Nils Gillmann writes: > I guess we just are trying to prevent licensing mistakes in the future > for the hypothetical case that perl ever changes its license? Yes, exactly. Mark

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Mark H Weaver transcribed 751 bytes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > >> Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary > >> Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list? > > > > No. It just exists in a branch in an

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Mark H Weaver transcribed 826 bytes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > > >> > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> > > >> >> r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: > >> >> > >> >>> +(license (package-license perl > >> >> > >> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Nils Gillmann writes: > Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: >> Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary >> Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list? > > No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fluid) repository where > other nonfree

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Nils Gillmann writes: >> > Ludovic Courtès writes: >> > >> >> r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: >> >> >> >>> +(license (package-license perl >> >> >> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn’t make any >> >> difference in this case but it’s

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > Hi Nils, > > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > > > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have > >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > > > I can not post the link to

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Nils, Nils Gillmann writes: > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > I can not post the link to straight-out of the box Thunderbird here > (current

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Roel Janssen transcribed 509 bytes: > > Roel Janssen writes: > > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > >> Hi Roel, > >> > >> r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: > >> > >>> +(license (package-license perl > >> > >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are > willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. > > I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything > like Icedove in the guix repository. > > I found

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Rene transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Hello, > > GNOME Evolution is another graphical mail-reader; > currently it is not packaged, but the important part is that it requires the > evolution-data-server service that does not exist either. > > See more: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution I'm

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Rene
Hello, GNOME Evolution is another graphical mail-reader; currently it is not packaged, but the important part is that it requires the evolution-data-server service that does not exist either. See more: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.

2018-04-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Roel, > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> The patch adds a “disableGarbageCollection” boolean variable to the >> guix-daemon settings, and on each occasion where a store item may be >> deleted, it checks this option. >> >> This

Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Björn Höfling
One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything like Icedove in the guix repository. I found two references on the net, but both are negative:

Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.

2018-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Roel, Roel Janssen skribis: > The patch adds a “disableGarbageCollection” boolean variable to the > guix-daemon settings, and on each occasion where a store item may be > deleted, it checks this option. > > This option can be set using “--disable-gc”. > > It would be great

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Roel Janssen writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Roel, >> >> r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: >> >>> +(license (package-license perl >> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn’t make any >> difference in this case but it’s

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Roel, > > r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: > >> +(license (package-license perl > > Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn’t make any > difference in this case but it’s generally “safer” (see (guix > licenses)). Of course!

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

2018-04-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Roel, r...@gnu.org (Roel Janssen) skribis: > +(license (package-license perl Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn’t make any difference in this case but it’s generally “safer” (see (guix licenses)). Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.

2018-04-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Adam Van Ymeren writes: > Just out of curiosity, what is your situation where the daemon can't > see all GC roots? Are you sharing the store over NFS or something? Yes. And the underlying storage system is configured in such a way that “root” is not allowed to look into user's

Re: [PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.

2018-04-03 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
Just out of curiosity, what is your situation where the daemon can't see all GC roots? Are you sharing the store over NFS or something?On 3 Apr 2018 6:12 a.m., Roel Janssen wrote: > > Dear Guix, > > I have an interesting situation where the guix-daemon cannot see all >

[PATCH] guix-daemon: Add option to disable garbage collection.

2018-04-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Dear Guix, I have an interesting situation where the guix-daemon cannot see all directories that (may) contain Guix profiles, and therefore is not able to judge whether a GC root is gone and can be collected, or whether it's just inaccessible. To be on the safe side, I'd like to disable garbage