Re: Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

2020-12-07 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Hi, Of course, I agree with everything that's said here. That's exactly why I am excited about Guix! I think it has a sound mechanism to fine-tune the degree of impurity one wishes to accept. What I was thinking was maybe more organizational - is someone coming up to form a group or

Re: Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

2020-12-07 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 at 22:55, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Guix repeats the idea of Nix, but realising it more preciously and > elegantly. The word “repeat” is incorrect here. It is more appropriated to say: Guix is based on the idea of Nix or Guix applies similar ideas pioneered by Nix.

Re: Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

2020-12-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zna...@disroot.org writes: > If you want popular comfortable OS on your home computer, that is not > idea of Guix. I must have been doing things wrong then. I find Guix System to be exceptionally comfortable, and it’s the most popular OS on my home computers ;) @Yasuaki: Guix can be and is

Re: Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

2020-12-07 Thread znavko
Guix repeats the idea of Nix, but realising it more preciously and elegantly. Instead of self-made imperfect language describing configuration Guix is using powerful Guile. You want some forks of Guix, do you? It is hard to package some software you like for Guix, but forking guix breaking its

How to secure Grub control from other distro?

2020-12-07 Thread znavko--- via
Hello! I have two distros on my PC: on /dev/sda - Guix on /dev/sdc - Ubuntu Today, after update and upgrade of newly installed Ubuntu and also after installation of lubuntu-desktop and lxde on ubuntu, I was unfortunately grieved. Lubuntu had recovered my Grub and had broken everything! I was

Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

2020-12-07 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Hello! I wonder which mailing list (or anything else) is the best for open-ended Guix discussions. I think Guix has a huge potential and it a needs a downgraded version (akin to how Ubuntu makes a worse version of Debian) so that more people can use it. As it stands, by default, Guix

NAS drive

2020-12-07 Thread Roy Lemmon
Hi, I have a NAS drive which I would like to connect to in my house. I have done this many times from other Linux systems. However today I struggled with guix. I have installed nfs-utils. That allows me to use the mount command: sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.17:/Multimedia /mnt/nas However, when

Re: Integrate Guix GUI programs into foreign distro's desktop?

2020-12-07 Thread John Soo
Hey Hartmut, You may want to look into wrap-program which is used in many packages. Similar things are done I. The glib-or-gtk-build-system (I think it is called). Hope that helps, John

Re: Integrate Guix GUI programs into foreign distro's desktop?

2020-12-07 Thread Bonface M. K.
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, >> What I do is to ensure that I have the path to the >> Guix binaries configured properly: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> export PATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" > > Thanks, anyhow this does not