Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Andreas, > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:56:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you >> that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell >> you that these environment variables can also be set by

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

2019-02-18 Thread Clément Lassieur
I'm unsure it's related. It's talking about an error while building xxx-etc.drv. Maybe you should have a look at the actual log? See "View build log at..." Raghav RG Gururajan writes: > @Clement > > The code didn't work. I have attached the error with this email. > Original Message

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

2019-02-18 Thread Simon Nielsen
18.02.2019, 14:44, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" : > If this is the quality of argument that ‘won’ over PureOS, it's > blaming Guix/Ricardo for not being around to stop others from > being bullied. > > Kind regards, > > T G-R Hi Tobias, I've been reading this conversation from the outside but noticed

Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?

2019-02-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:56:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you > that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell > you that these environment variables can also be set by source’ing the >

Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?

2019-02-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Agreed. For users using other shells, the issue is not knew. The main recommendation I've seen (e.g. for Fish) is that the user kept a POSIX-style shell as a login shell and only drop into the desired shell after the profile has been loaded. This way, Guix and similar configurations

Re: Eliminate environment variable hints?

2019-02-18 Thread Brett Gilio
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you > that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell > you that these environment variables can also be set by source’ing the > generated etc/profile file. > > I

Eliminate environment variable hints?

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, when installing a package into a profile Guix very helpfully tells you that you may need to set certain environment variables. It doesn’t tell you that these environment variables can also be set by source’ing the generated etc/profile file. I have seen the bashrc and bash_profile

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:56:19 +0200 Efraim Flashner wrote: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > 'guix package

Re: New topic: packaging

2019-02-18 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:02:26 +0100 swedebugia wrote: > Am I late to the party? Yes, you are :-) We decided to split once: We now put the whole "setup and build guix from git" part into one video. And then the real "packaging" part starts in a second video. It might be that we need to break

Re: New topic: packaging

2019-02-18 Thread swedebugia
"Björn Höfling" skrev: (13 februari 2019 10:13:22 CET) >On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:38:21 -0300 >Laura Lazzati wrote: > >> Hi Guix again! >> >> Another topic is about showing how to package. >> >> Gábor suggested maybe using my experience about creating a new R >> package. >> >> My idea is to

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad, On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 17:31, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > Hi Ricardo, > > >> "My channel" doesn't exist (because I haven't yet found the time to > >> figure out how to set up and manage a channel, although it's been on my > >> to-do list for a while). > > > > I’d be happy to assist. > >

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Brett Gilio
Efraim Flashner writes: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > 'guix package -A ^python2- | wc -l' gave me 737 >

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge�?�

2019-02-18 Thread ng0
Konrad Hinsen transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Hi Ricardo, > > >> "My channel" doesn't exist (because I haven't yet found the time to > >> figure out how to set up and manage a channel, although it's been on my > >> to-do list for a while). > > > > I’d be happy to assist. > > Thanks! I might come back

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ricardo, >> "My channel" doesn't exist (because I haven't yet found the time to >> figure out how to set up and manage a channel, although it's been on my >> to-do list for a while). > > I’d be happy to assist. Thanks! I might come back to that offer when I find at least enough time to figure

Re: [urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

2019-02-18 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:53:04 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > [...] > > The application period begins today. So far nobody has come forward > to volunteer as a mentor, so I suppose Guix will not participate in > the upcoming Outreachy round of internships. Hi

Re: Rust 1.19 fails to build on i686 on ‘staging’

2019-02-18 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Chris, On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:53:30 -0800 Chris Marusich wrote: > > (i.e. the things you did before, just inside a i686-linux guix > > environment. That only provides minimal--almost no--isolation from > > the host, so it should allow us to test whether the personality is the > > only

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread zimoun
Dear, Maybe I am wrong and I miss one point. If you have local packages that depends on Guix packages, then it is not a big issue when the Guix packages are removed. Because you just have to `guix pull --commit=' where points to a Guix commit owning the required packages. And if I have correct,

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

2019-02-18 Thread Raghav "RG" Gururajan
Ah! Got it. Thank you! Original Message On 17 Feb 2019, 13:26, Clément Lassieur wrote: > 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

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

2019-02-18 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 12:16:41 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > It seems to me, that there is a whole bunch of people interested in > this, but due to lack of resources or for some other reasons nothing > is really happening. Do you know any we we could help getting this > resolved? This is a very

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

2019-02-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
bill-auger wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:33:06 +0100 Ricardo wrote: I don’t feel motivated to apologize to the people involved in PureOS because I wasn’t around when they were pressured / convinced to drop Chromium. no, but you could have been around - you also could have argued for pureos

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

2019-02-18 Thread bill-auger
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:33:06 +0100 Ricardo wrote: > I don’t feel motivated to apologize to the people involved in PureOS > because I wasn’t around when they were pressured / convinced to drop > Chromium. no, but you could have been around - you also could have argued for pureos on their side of

Re: [urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

2019-02-18 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 18.02.19 um 11:53 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > The application period begins today. So far nobody has come forward > to volunteer as a mentor, so I suppose Guix will not participate in the > upcoming Outreachy round of internships. Bringing KDE Plasma to guix. Considerable work has already been

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Konrad, >> Konrad, going forward it might be reasonable to keep copies of required >> Python 2 packages in your channel. We aren’t going to remove Python 2 >> packages now, but in the future we may not be able to fix unmaintained >> packages and may have to remove them. > > "My channel"

Re: 01/01: gnu: guile-hall: Update to 0.2.

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Alex, [-guix-commits, +guix-devel] >>> Again, this is the result of auto-generation: Hall generically wraps any >>> script files in the scripts directory of a project with all Guile >>> dependencies — rather than the developer having to manually specify >>> these things. >> >> I think this

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ricardo, > Konrad, going forward it might be reasonable to keep copies of required > Python 2 packages in your channel. We aren’t going to remove Python 2 > packages now, but in the future we may not be able to fix unmaintained > packages and may have to remove them. "My channel" doesn't

Re: [urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

2019-02-18 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Ricardo, 2019. febr. 18., H 11:53 dátummal Ricardo Wurmus ezt írta: > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > the next Outreachy round of internships will take place from May 2019 to > > August 2019. As a community we would need to decide very soon whether > > we would like to participate in the

Re: [urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > the next Outreachy round of internships will take place from May 2019 to > August 2019. As a community we would need to decide very soon whether > we would like to participate in the upcoming round. > > To make that decision we need to have people come forward who

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Konrad Hinsen writes: > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* >> packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now >> get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > Please be careful

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Efraim Flashner writes: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. Please be careful with "leaf packages". The leaves of

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2019-02-18 Thread Efraim Flashner
I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. 'guix package -A ^python2- | wc -l' gave me 737 the number of leaf python2 packages I