bug#62917: [bug report subject correction]

Apologies for the noise, but the subject of the email I sent is wrong. It should have been ‘guix shell -CF’ rather than ‘guix shell -CH’.

bug#62917: ‘guix shell -CH’ should be able to contain both GCC and Clang

When I add ‘gcc-toolchain’, it seems to try to create a ‘/bin/cc’ symlink to GCC, but the Clang package also has a ‘cc’ executable, so it fails. - - - - - - - - - % guix shell -CF clang-toolchain gcc-toolchain guix shell: error: symlink: File exists: "/bin/cc" - - - - - - - - -

bug#59846: "Running Guix in a Virtual Machine" documentation unclear/incomplete/wrong

Hello! As far as I understand, the QEMU image is not meant to be used for installing Guix System, but rather just trying it out. You should instead use the “GNU Guix Sytem on Linux” image from Here are some quick steps to get started: - - - - - % wget -O

bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

It seems the package for Mono in Guix uses a tarball that contains a lot of prebuilt DLLs. This doesn’t seem to have been mentioned when the package was introduced. Could it have been a mistake? Some related discussion: and also