different versions of glibc-locales in the same profile

2018-12-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, on a foreign distribution what is the recommended way to install different versions of glibc-locales into the same profile? Since glibc-locales install their files into a versioned directory, having glibc-locales@2.27 in a profile containing glibc-locales@2.28 does not lead to

Re: Coq native-inputs: Useless hevea / texlive?

2018-12-13 Thread Julien Lepiller
They must have been useful in older versions, but I didn't pay attention. If they are not needed for anything, please go ahead and remove them! Thank you! Le 13 décembre 2018 22:20:15 GMT+01:00, Pierre Neidhardt a écrit : >Hevea and texlive are native-inputs for Coq, however they don't seem

Coq native-inputs: Useless hevea / texlive?

2018-12-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hevea and texlive are native-inputs for Coq, however they don't seem to be used ever. https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/V8.8.2/INSTALL does not mention them as build dependencies either. Shall we remove them? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is GCL built with gcc@4.9?

2018-12-13 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:03:59AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > I'm curious about this commit of yours from April 2017: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > commit 5c7815f205e9164d4b82378de91bee7a65bcfbcb > Author: Efraim Flashner > Date: Mon

Re: 01/01: hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.

2018-12-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:17:23AM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > I’m in favour of moving them elsewhere, such as %desktop-services. > > yes please: sound related services are not-so-base, we do not need them > on installation/web/mail/DNS et. al servers (and containers) and it does > not

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-13 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, >> because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. > > Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's > definitely not supposed to happen. > > mrustc

Re: Question about Guix documentation

2018-12-13 Thread Laura Lazzati
yes, I knew about the I/O operations stuff, I turned my fancy retroPC on just to check, it is not a laptop, it is a desktop PC. It is has a monocore Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, and a Parallel ATA hard drive. Please. do not say it is fancy anymore, I have just written a post for my blog about it being fancy

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-13 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-12 08:40, Andreas Enge wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:16:56AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: I'm opposed to dropping i686 support. If we dropped support for systems that are not well supported in Guix, the only system left standing would be x86_64-linux. I believe it is of

500+ Gnome-shell-extensions - how to handle?

2018-12-13 Thread swedebugia
Hi people How do we best handle gnome-shell-extensions? They seem needing to be registered via gsettings (see example in the install.sh attached) so a service for exporting the installed extensions seems necessary. So in a config we would specify: (shell-extension-service-type =>

Need help rdelim. Trying to add caching to the npm-explorer

2018-12-13 Thread swedebugia
Hi I get this error when I run the script testing the http-fetch proc. sdb@komputilo ~/guile-npm-explorer$ guile -s npm-explorer.scm fetching allocate_stack failed: Cannot allocate memory Any ideas what is wrong? I think the error is on line 57. I tried with get-char/get-string-all and both

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Chris, nice to see this discussion, IMHO how GuixSD subsitutes are distributed is a key issue in our ecosystem and is _all_ about privacy and metadata *mass* collection most "normal users" are not concerned about this so they are fine with super-centralization since it's a convenience... not

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Chris, thank you for your CDN testing environment! Chris Marusich writes: [...] > For experimentation, I've set up a CloudFront distribution at > berlin-mirror.marusich.info that uses berlin.guixsd.org as its origin > server. Let's repeat these steps to measure the performance of the >

Re: Question about Guix documentation

2018-12-13 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-03 00:39, Laura Lazzati wrote: 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :) I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind). Oh no! my retroPC

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-13 Thread Chris Marusich
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Regarding the GNU sub-domain, as I replied to Meiyo, I’m in favor of it, > all we need is someone to champion setting it up. I could help with this. Whom should I contact? >> Regarding CDNs, I definitely think it's worth a try! Even Debian is >> using CloudFront