Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great Good catch, I agree! Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

2022-01-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Andrew, Andrew Tropin writes: [...] > Ludovic mentioned someday that nginx-configuration is problematic, but I > highlighted the generic problems, which are applicable for many other > guix service configurations. > > I discussed some other pros and cons of record-based configurations in >

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-01-27, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian? > > I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me > that: > > * Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work What doesn't work? The main two issues I'm aware of are... Issue with "guix

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Well I have to tell you I am not too familiar with either Debian or Guix So with that disclaimer: - If I remember correctly, Guix in Debian just doesn't work straight away after apt-get install, meaning enabling of certain Guix services also required? - He needs to have everything that Guix

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Yasuaki Kudo writes: > Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian? > > I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me > that: > > * Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work How does “apt install guix” not work? There’s an older version of Guix in Debian.

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian? I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me that: * Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work * and his really big complaint is evidently he creates "virtual environments" (short of full-on VMware, I imagine it is an

Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Sławomir Lach writes: > Solution is simple: > 1. Keep older packages in GUIX repo, so developers could request older > version > in scripts Unforunately, it’s really not that simply to keep older packages around. I’m maintaining packages for a bunch of bioinformatics tools, for example,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vagrant Cascadian 写道: Just for clarity, do you mean the GFDL with a laundry-list of non-free anti-features excluded, like the guix manual: I think that goes without saying, but clarity is good: thanks for bringing it up. Invariants would be a deal-breaker for several of us I'm sure,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-01-26, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing > it). > > I’d like us to clarify that,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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Commit Access

2022-01-26 Thread Vinicius Monego
Hi everyone, I was granted commit access to the repository [1] one hour ago. I am signing this mail with the key that will be used to sign commits. My public key can be found at [2] and [3]. Looking forward to working with all of you. Vinicius [1]

The way to promote GUIX package manager

2022-01-26 Thread Sławomir Lach
Maybe it's road to security hell, but it is also very important for beginners and developers. Promote GNU GUIX by add support for installers/some scripts, which detects OS and install software by package manager based on detection. It is very hard to keep this kind of scripts fresh, because

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing > it). > > I’d like us to

Shepherd should not reboot on exit when running as root

2022-01-26 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi, If shepherd is run as root, it assumes it is the init system and reboots the system. Since shepherd is not just an init system, but can also be used as a non-init process to manage other daemons, this is probably not good default behaviour. At the very least, it would be nice to have a

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing > it). > > I’d like us to clarify that, with a

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Oliver Propst
Me too. -- Kinds regards Oliver Propst https://twitter.com/Opropst

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Julien Lepiller
On January 26, 2022 10:24:11 AM GMT+01:00, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: >Hello Guix! > >With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is >not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside >Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:24:11AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
I agree! On 1/26/22 11:24, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello Guix! With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing it). I’d like us

Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing it). I’d like us to clarify that, with a footer on blog posts saying

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

2022-01-26 Thread Andrew Tropin
> I have some attention problems, so I don't follow all the patches on > guix-patches, please CC me for Guix Home related changes if it's > possible and not very burdening. I'll make a special search query, which shows all the messages with "home:" in subject line, so I should be fine on

Re: Language menu in the HTML manual

2022-01-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 04:11:16PM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Heh. :-) Done! That should appear on-line soon (you may have to > reload with Ctrl-F5.) Thanks, working well! (Except for the sun that has disappeared again...) Andreas

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

2022-01-26 Thread Andrew Tropin
On 2022-01-24 16:37, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Tropin skribis: > >>> Making Guix Home part of Guix was and still is a commitment, in >>> particular the commitment that we’d all be working on one >>> implementation, that there are no “competitive incompatible >>>

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

2022-01-26 Thread Andrew Tropin
On 2022-01-21 10:30, Maxime Devos wrote: > Andrew Tropin schreef op do 20-01-2022 om 16:20 [+0300]: >> [...] >> >> From what I understood from Liliana's and Maxime's replies: I'm not the >> only one finding the original implementation to be more intuitive and >> consistent with the rest of Guix

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

2022-01-26 Thread Andrew Tropin
On 2022-01-21 10:30, Maxime Devos wrote: > Andrew Tropin schreef op do 20-01-2022 om 16:20 [+0300]: >> [...] >> >> From what I understood from Liliana's and Maxime's replies: I'm not the >> only one finding the original implementation to be more intuitive and >> consistent with the rest of Guix