Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-17 Thread bill-auger
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:06:20 -0500 Julie wrote: > So... the same thing as Linux. yes, much the same situation as linux, but with the very important difference, that we have people like the good folks at linux-libre who are constantly watching linux for new undesirables entering it, and those peopl

Re: Guix Emacs: use XRandr rather than Gdk?

2019-02-17 Thread Benjamin Slade
So it turns out that, indeed, adding `("libxrandr" ,libxrandr)` to `inputs` is necessary but not sufficient to get Guix's Emacs to use XRandr rather than Gdk. Currently in Guix, there is the `emacs-no-x-toolkit` which actually is a GUI version of Emacs, but not using any toolkit (so the menus etc

Re: GNU/Hurd update

2019-02-17 Thread Rene
trace-xz.log Description: Binary data Hello, In addition to the problem with static guile in Hurd, the static binary `xz` shows the following message when trying to check the version. --8<---cut here---start->8--- jin@Hurd:~/glibc-2.28/bin$ ./xz --version

Re: FSDG processes

2019-02-17 Thread Christopher Baines
Gábor Boskovits writes: > Following a recent discussion regarding chromium on guix-devel, I got > interested in a few aspects of free software. > > I have a number of question, and if you could refer me to > documentation regarding that, or just answer me in mail, I would > greatly appreciate th

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
bill-auger writes: > if we do not FIRSTLY apologize to pureos for asking them to remove > chromium and publicly endorse them to re-instate it, then endorsing it > into guix would be hypocritical and shameful I find this use of “we” confusing. I don’t feel motivated to apologize to the people

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-17 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Julie Marchant writes: > I don't understand what's so complicated about this issue. In justice > systems, we adopt an "innocent until proven guilty" system because you > can't really prove innocence, only guilt. I agree with Julie's point here. The fear that "there might be something nonfree in

FSDG processes

2019-02-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Following a recent discussion regarding chromium on guix-devel, I got interested in a few aspects of free software. I have a number of question, and if you could refer me to documentation regarding that, or just answer me in mail, I would greatly appreciate that. 1. If there is a free sof

Re: manage /boot/grub/grub.cfg without installing grub binaries to disk

2019-02-17 Thread Clément Lassieur
Raghav RG Gururajan writes: > @clement > > Thanks! Btw, shouldn't the first line be "(boot loader > (bootloader-configuration)" in the code snippet you sent?? Well, I just gave the value of the bootloader field, but with this your config.scm should look like: (operating-system [...] (bootloa

New French PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 0.16.0.1)

2019-02-17 Thread Translation Project Robot
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New French PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 0.16.0.1)

2019-02-17 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the French team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/fr.po (We can arrange things

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-17 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi swedebugia, swedebugia writes: [...] >>given you understand most part of it, why don't you try to write an >>exegesis of that code yourself ;-) > I could certainly try to do that but Ricardo said himself "its not > great..." so I don't know if it is a good idea. yes, probably the code woul

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-17 Thread Julie Marchant
On 02/17/2019 02:43 AM, bill-auger wrote: > the difference there is that chromium is not one piece of software > written by one person or even one modestly sized team - it is a > conglomeration of perhaps 100s of different projects written by perhaps > 1000s of authors - for some files, it may not

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-17 Thread swedebugia
Giovanni Biscuolo skrev: (14 februari 2019 15:17:34 CET) >Hi swedebugia! > >swedebugia writes: > >[...] > >> I understand most parts of it ;) >> It is a real beauty and a testiment to the power of Guix and Guile. > >[...] > >>> IMHO your remote host configuration technique deserves a dedicated >

Re: New topic: asking for help

2019-02-17 Thread swedebugia
Alex Vong skrev: (16 februari 2019 19:58:39 CET) >Laura Lazzati writes: > > >>> We might also propose the mumi as the primary issue tracking >>> interface, and mention debbugs in >>> case more advanced stuff is needed. No strong opinion here. I agree. Although an important missing piece in both