Running guix on nixos

2016-01-20 Thread Jeff Mickey
There is a host at work that is running nixos. I thought "hey, I'll try doing that whole shared daemon thing". I have not succeeded yet. The approach has been to use the same nix-daemon, as I saw the hydra.gnu.org instance does something similar. I ran in the following shell: nix-shell -p

Design decision behind inputs/native-inputs/propagated-inputs

2016-01-20 Thread Steven Allen
All, I just attended David Thompson's talk about Guix and asked some questions about the difference between inputs, propagated-inputs, and native-inputs. I believe I now understand what each does but am unclear as to why. Currently, I use Arch. On Arch, we have makedepends and depends where only

Re: Deleting services from %desktop-services in operating system declaration

2016-01-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
swedebu...@riseup.net skribis: > I have trouble getting the syntax right to delete avahi and wicd from > my config.scm. The correct syntax would be: (operating-system ;; … (services (remove (lambda (service) (or (eq? (service-kind service)

Re: Deleting services from %desktop-services in operating system declaration

2016-01-20 Thread Thompson, David
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:42 AM, wrote: > Hi > > I have trouble getting the syntax right to delete avahi and wicd from my > config.scm. > > This did not work (inspecting with the REPL): > (services (cons* (tor-service) %desktop-services)) > (modify-services