Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes:
> This was posted before:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-01/msg00041.html
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not able to acquire a wifi dongle at the moment.
> As far as I understand, linux-libre turns off the ability to load
> non-free firmware. Why is it so?
>
> Is it possible to re-enable the feature?
> If not, are there other ways around the issue?
Hi Pierre,
Guix allows one to customize their packages through inheritance. You
could create a custom linux package that inherits Guix's linux-libre,
with, say a differente source. When linux-libre is updated, my-linux
would be updated as well, since it inherits linux-libre. Thus, you
would have no maintainance to do.
(define-public my-linux
(package
(inherit linux-libre)
(name "my-linux")
(source ...)))
This custom package's definition needs to be within GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
See
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html#Package-Modules
for more information.
Clément
