Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
want here and now. After disabling everything IceCat comes with, I found the replacement Add-on pages to be misdesigned for the context they appear in. I did not succeed in installing uMatrix, one of the few add-ons I care about. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http

Re: 2 ideas

2018-06-10 Thread Thorsten Wilms
directory? With a separate mechanism to bring each new message file to the user's attention, plus a means of stepping through all of them. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-07 Thread Thorsten Wilms
tiny dot in the universe. You should be grateful that someone choses that to play with". Just when you talk about how valuable it is when project contributors and especially the core developers step in when people use hurtful or even just unfortunate language or outright attack others ... yo

Re: Chrooting into GuixSD

2018-06-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
due to nss certificates, until I added: export SSL_CERT_DIR="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs" export SSL_CERT_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$SSL_CERT_FILE" -- Thorsten Wilms thorwi

Re: Chrooting into GuixSD

2018-06-15 Thread Thorsten Wilms
f I'd bind proc, I would then find out dev and sys has to be taken care of, too, leading back to what I had already. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Videos

2018-05-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
deo editor. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Videos

2018-06-19 Thread Thorsten Wilms
P bought a new computer. Getting it ready won't take long ... Development Watertight handling of dependencies Inheriting and modifying packages Environments ... -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Half a success with chroot

2018-03-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
don't think I saw "substitute: guile: warning: failed to install locale" when booted into Guix SD. I'm forwarding this also to devel, so that we can discuss, if doing this is advisable in general. WDYT? OK, I just subscribed to guix-devel. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's des

Services, was: Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-30 Thread Thorsten Wilms
erview of what service-type allows what?, when?, would shine. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
e. Still unfortunate that it defaults to building *everything*. With only `./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm` things work now. Thanks! -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
tion using plain X11? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 22.03.2018 14:04, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 22.03.2018 00:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> writes: Initially I thought creation of /tmp/.X11-unix should be tied to the xorg-server-xwayland package, but since it is more generic: which component should

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
) to the patch list: --- From 0af5028419db3adc8c7d8c4d51668c5077013ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:59:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add x11-socket-dir-service * gnu/services/desktop.scm (gnu): Export x11-socket-dir-service, define it,

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
is going on, though I guess I may have to reread it later on, to get more out of it. On 29.03.2018 08:18, Chris Marusich wrote: > Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> writes: > >> On 22.03.2018 00:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> >>> Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.d

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 26.03.2018 13:18, Marius Bakke wrote: In any case it should be safe to add an activation script that creates /tmp/.X11-unix on GuixSD. I think it can be part of %desktop-services, or maybe even %base-services. Would you like to try it? I'm looking into it. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's

XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
)? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

2018-03-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 22.03.2018 00:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> writes: Initially I thought creation of /tmp/.X11-unix should be tied to the xorg-server-xwayland package, but since it is more generic: which component should create that dir on Guix SD (based o

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-28 Thread Thorsten Wilms
the pledge? Seems to me either that language must go, or in future, contributions (at least those ending up in the tree) can only be accepted from people who explicitly made/joined/signed the pledge (AKA read and sign this EULA before contributing even the tiniest bug-fix). -- Thorsten

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-28 Thread Thorsten Wilms
d on GKCG, but have the acceptable behaviour and the processes defined. Do you think this can/should be done? Do you think that this could result in a better situation overall? Yes and yes, though I'm not sure how much of a GKCG-alike it should become, as I think it's important to have somethi

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
s like war, with the usual effects on truth and fairness. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
the rules may lead to any of: a warning, rejection of contributions, a ban where and as far as possible." -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
CoC they promise to apply some restrictions on doing so. (The one way where the CoC as pledge seems OK to me, being placed there by them). -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
t that they would like to go beyond that, but here it's up to Ricardo and Ludovic. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Patch submission should not imply agreement to policy (was Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?)

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
;pledge" issue at the root: https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/contributor_covenant/issues/624 Just in case anyone here feels like showing some support there. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Patch submission should not imply agreement to policy (was Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?)

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Wilms
is that it is an attempt to push people to declare a mixed bag as their own, with no voice in the process (other than take it or leave it). One that contains hard-to-argue-with aspects, but also questionable and vague parts. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Patch submission should not imply agreement to policy (was Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?)

2018-10-30 Thread Thorsten Wilms
I sound like a drama royal person ... so be it! ;) -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2018-10-30 Thread Thorsten Wilms
`guix pull` and `sudo guix pull` are markedly different. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

guix pull: error: symlink: File exists (was: Re: [outreachy] Further steps)

2018-10-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
orwil'... guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil/current-guix-1-link" --- At the same time, a `sudo guix pull` works fine. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-10-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
ther substitute server. If people here agree, I'd be happy to send a documentation patch. For whatever it may be worth, when I first read about https://berlin.guixsd.org, I wondered if it could/should be used additionally, looked at the documentation, found it confusing and then forgot about th

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
. I did not follow the original debate in detail so am going on the links you provide. If you read what was quoted from Theodore Tso's email and now think that calling him a rape apologist is warranted, then, as the very least, I have to doubt your reading comprehension. -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
e the problem is there? The problem is you completely ignored the problem of maintaining confidentiality while letting the accused know _exactly_ what the accusation is about. The CoC encourages "believe the accuser" and "guilty until proven innocent" for the accused

Re: Trying to make texinfo patch

2018-11-06 Thread Thorsten Wilms
they compare to other options, cost-wise. Or, as a _perhaps_ easier and "good enough" solution, consider an external hard-drive for regular backups (otherwise detached and stored in a safe space). Even better if you have several to cycle through. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for fre

Re: Review of pros and cons of package managers including Guix

2018-11-08 Thread Thorsten Wilms
e quite simply isn't the right level of granularity and encoding of intentions given with plain text configuration files. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-11 Thread Thorsten Wilms
option comes close and it's explicitly in conflict with --nowrap. In principle, to be certain, one would have to ask a maintainer, or read the code, or best of all, test it, though. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-07 Thread Thorsten Wilms
with the width of the screen if the screen is resized. The default value is -8. This option conflicts with -w (--nowrap) -- the last one given takes effect. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-04 Thread Thorsten Wilms
a harassment-free environment falls out of the CoC, which surely is not what anyone meant. If one assumes, not without reason, that the "we" of the CoC doesn't actually exist", then what is left? Anyway, I may still opt to (try to) contribute, as nobody would gain anything from my withholding a package or whatever it may be. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: QtCreator Packaging

2018-10-11 Thread Thorsten Wilms
ng environment with Markdown markup.") (license license:gpl3+))) ;icons/* under CC-BY-SA3 --- So the current pattern for building with qmake is to use `(build-system gnu-build-system)` with modify-phases to replace configure. How that replacement looks exactly varies between packages. I'm surprised that python-pyqt has (native-inputs `(("qtbase" ,qtbase))) ; for qmake but other packages that replace configure do not. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-27 Thread Thorsten Wilms
rounds of guix pull and update spread over days. Sorry about forgetting to update this thread and many thanks for getting back on this! -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
ernet access". It seems like with "technology" a bit of the implementation language slipped through? "User selection": This could start right in "User creation" for the first, required user. Actually, I wonder if the installer should even offer creation of several users? In general, don't do what can easily be done after installation. Consider to leave "selection" out of all page titles. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Packaging Arcan

2018-11-23 Thread Thorsten Wilms
in a cryptic filename, unless one adds (file-name (git-file-name name version)) in the origin form. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

util-linux and perl rename

2018-11-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
dered a bug? Is there a policy for such circumstances? What happens that the newly installed "rename" gets precedence? The best info I found on the rename vs rename issue in general: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/275254/why-is-the-rename-utility-on-debian-ubuntu-different-than-th

Re: util-linux and perl rename

2018-11-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
would have been tempted to put a symlink in /usr/local/bin, but there's no "latest-of-package-foo" to link to, right? Is there a way to get a list of all name clashes on the system? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
ncy, one would have to opt for entirely script-driven slide generation. Aside of something Latex-based, there's: https://wingolog.org/projects/guile-present/doc/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/slideshow/ -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
it's certainly easier to have separate files. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-19 Thread Thorsten Wilms
a.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones Though I wouldn't know how to "fold" that list. Here's how it's done for tzdata, with pretty good language: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/additional-recommended-steps-for-new-ubuntu-14-04-servers#configure-timezones-and-net

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-14 Thread Thorsten Wilms
file/share/guile/site/2.2 GUIX_LOCPATH=/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib/locale GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=/media/hd/devel/guix/packages GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.2 --- -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: English Voice Wanted

2019-02-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
32 bit floating point. LADSPA and LV2, too. FLAC does not support float; the only losless compressed format that does is wavpack. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

Re: Updates on the guix home manager

2019-09-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
option to apply my changes as a patch, or see where conflicts are. Adding a mechanism to generalize settings, I can only imagine a graph, consisting of generalized-settings-producers, translators, patches and combiners. Actually, generalized-settings-producers could be patches (from nothing to something). -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-10 Thread Thorsten Wilms
matter should not be discussed is ... at least unwise, if not disingenious. So I have some sympathy with Jean Louis, as silly as the idea of Guix being anything without you is. -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
-locales. I mean to recall that I read in the docs and/or in an example, that glibc-utf8-locales is smaller than glibc-locales, but still sufficient for many cases. Is that wrong? -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Inkscape export errors

2020-10-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
n occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "output_scour.py", line 17, in """) inkex.utils.DependencyError: Failed to import module 'scour'. Please make sure it is installed (e.g. using 'pip install scour' or 'sudo apt-get install python-scour') and try again. --- -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Move LV2 plugins to dedicated module?

2020-12-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
ation, right? But I take it name changes break at least the upgrade chain, so users should be made aware of that. -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Inkscape export errors

2020-10-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
and inkscape-1.0.1/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py. -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
identity and expression shall not depend on what they have been born with, but you do not get to decide that for all of mankind. The audience of the CoC does not have a uniform understanding of these matters. -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
r expression. This is very twisted and unfair to Taylan. Are you saying that even just implying that a trans-woman is not the same as a cis-woman (or the same for man) is discrimination (strictly in the negative sense of the word)? -- Thorsten Wilms