Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?

2018-11-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Matthew, > Is there any recommended way to have guix gc only delete packages that > aren't required to build anything? This requirement is a little vague. Do you mean to only delete leaf packages? Or do you just want to keep a version of GCC? You could create an environment containing

guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?

2018-11-29 Thread Matthew Brooks
Is there any recommended way to have guix gc only delete packages that aren't required to build anything? I've made a custom bash script that loops through the output of "guix gc --list-dead" and tells guix to delete any dead packages that have no --referers, but it's really slow (it can take

Re: Guile text editor

2018-11-29 Thread Joshua Branson
writes: > Thank you, Catonano! There are such options in Gedit! > > Comparing with that highlighting in emacs (left) http://0x0.st/s004.png > this gedit highlighting is so poor. > > I need info how to activate parentheses highlighting in Emacs, and may be > configure exactly as in my pic left

Re: Features of installing package that works as service

2018-11-29 Thread Joshua Branson
writes: I'm not sure what's wrong here. As far as I can understand you code makes sense and should remove the services that you don't want. You've probably seen this bit of code here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Base-Services (remove (lambda (service)

Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot

2018-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Arun Isaac skribis: >> It would be best if we had a generic way to say which Shepherd >> services should be started automatically and which shouldn’t. > > Could you describe some way to achieve this? If it's simple enough, I > can implement it and contribute a patch. I don’t have a good idea on