Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-10-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > followed by firing up a uxterm which I have as an alias > > alias guixterm='/home/wrk/.guix-profile/bin/uxterm -vb -fg black -bg > lightyellow -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*' > > guixterm & > > That gives me the full locale suppor

Re: Browsing Guix (or any) lists with Gmane

2017-10-02 Thread myglc2
On 10/01/2017 at 12:45 Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hello Guix! > > For Guix and Gnus (or to become) users out there, I thought I'd share > this brief post where I explained the process of setting up Gnus and Gmane. > > Here are some benefits: > 1. No need to locally store emails; just view them over

Re: LibreOffice Fonts

2017-10-02 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
ng0 writes: > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.8K bytes: >> Hello Tom, >> >> Tom Balzer skribis: >> >> > Recently I installed libreoffice in my user profile, and found that all >> > menus require the package 'font-gnu-freetype-ttf' in order to render >> > correctly. Without this package, every ch

Re: [PATCH 11/11] gnu: Add python-twine.

2017-10-02 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 09/18/2017 10:35 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > BTW, in the future, please consider emailing guix-patc...@gnu.org: OK. I pushed this patch series on master after applying the requested changes. Thanks for the reviews! Cyril.

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi David, On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:18:12AM +0200, David Seaward wrote: > Hi all, > > To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix > project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as > an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. > > The

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread ng0
Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 1.7K bytes: > ng0 writes: > > > Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: > >> Konrad Hinsen writes: > >> > >> > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: > >> > > >> >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix > >> >> project

Re: bash: invalid option "no_empty_cmd_completion"

2017-10-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 28.09.2017 um 16:14 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > You can easily override it by adding “bash” to after --ad-hoc I believe. ACK, but the I ended up with "arbitrary choosing" which is not quite confidence-building. :-( -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers

Re: Inconsistency between "guix system" and "guix package"

2017-10-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 02.10.2017 um 16:43 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > So we cannot just have “guix package install” or “guix package remove”. > > Thoughts? use the dashes in "guix system", too: guix system --roll-back -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
ng0 writes: > Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: >> Konrad Hinsen writes: >> >> > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: >> > >> >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >> >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >>

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, David Seaward writes: > To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix > project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as > an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. > > The reason I ask is that cross-distro installers are increasing

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread ng0
Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > > > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: > > > >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix > >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as > >> an alternate instal

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Konrad Hinsen writes: > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: > >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. > > That's already possib

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: > >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. > > That's alre

Re: LibreOffice Fonts

2017-10-02 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hello Tom, > > Tom Balzer skribis: > > > Recently I installed libreoffice in my user profile, and found that all > > menus require the package 'font-gnu-freetype-ttf' in order to render > > correctly. Without this package, every character was rendered as

Re: LibreOffice Fonts

2017-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Tom, Tom Balzer skribis: > Recently I installed libreoffice in my user profile, and found that all > menus require the package 'font-gnu-freetype-ttf' in order to render > correctly. Without this package, every character was rendered as a > rectangle indicating a missing font. Every chara

Re: Inconsistency between "guix system" and "guix package"

2017-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey hey! Alex Kost skribis: > Hartmut Goebel (2017-09-22 14:13 +0200) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just stepped into problems listing the generations of "system". Then I >> found out: >> >> "guix system" uses sub-commands >> >> guix system list-generations >> guix system roll-back >> guix

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. That's already possible right now. Go to the download pa

Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread David Seaward
Hi all, To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. The reason I ask is that cross-distro installers are increasingly popular (for example, Flat