Re: Maintaining GNU Jami package for Guix

2019-10-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Jan, Jan writes: > Hi all, > It seems Jami package is outdated and unmaintained, so I would like to > become a maintainer of the package. > I know the basics of Guile Scheme and Guix System, I'm more or > less familiar with how Jami works and what are its dependencies, but I > don't know m

Maintaining GNU Jami package for Guix

2019-10-18 Thread Jan
Hi all, It seems Jami package is outdated and unmaintained, so I would like to become a maintainer of the package. I know the basics of Guile Scheme and Guix System, I'm more or less familiar with how Jami works and what are its dependencies, but I don't know much about development, git or build sy

Re: KDE frameworks are outdated

2019-10-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 18.10.19 um 19:07 schrieb Marius Bakke: >> Our KDE packages are severely lagging behind. We have Frameworks 5.55 >> and Plasma 5.15, whereas the latest available versions are 5.63.0 and >> 5.17. >> >> Help wanted! > > What kind of help do you need? Shouldn't "guix ref

Re: KDE frameworks are outdated

2019-10-18 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 18.10.19 um 19:07 schrieb Marius Bakke: > Our KDE packages are severely lagging behind. We have Frameworks 5.55 > and Plasma 5.15, whereas the latest available versions are 5.63.0 and > 5.17. > > Help wanted! What kind of help do you need? Shouldn't "guix refresh -t kde" do the job? -- Rega

Re: Questions about packaging

2019-10-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > In Guix, we have Pytest 4.4.2, but the latest release is 5.2.1. > In that case, would it make sense to define a new "versionned" public > variable for python-pytest? Would I create python-pytest5? Or would I > rename python-pytest to python-pytest4 and a

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Hi Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner writes: > > [...] > >> I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config: >> >> ;; This directory shouldn't exist >> (file-system >> (device "none") >> (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig") >> (type "tmpfs") >> (flags '(rea

KDE frameworks are outdated

2019-10-18 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Guixers, Our KDE packages are severely lagging behind. We have Frameworks 5.55 and Plasma 5.15, whereas the latest available versions are 5.63.0 and 5.17. Help wanted! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Diego Nicola Barbato
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Hi Diego! > > > Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : >> You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like >> this: >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> (service slim-service-type >> (slim-configurati

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Diego! Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : > You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like > this: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (service slim-service-type > (slim-configuration > (xorg-configuration >

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Diego Nicola Barbato
Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour writes: [...] > I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, > slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is. You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like this: --8<---cut here---

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Alex! Le 10/18, Alex Griffin a écrit : > For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. > As far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager > that doesn't run X as root. That's a very good point. Thanks for raising it to my attention! The thin

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Joshua! Le 10/18, Joshua Branson a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > > I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM > > instead. > This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :) Yeah, I thought so, but then I figured out that this could be solve

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Griffin
For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. As far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager that doesn't run X as root. -- Alex Griffin On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > Hi Guix! > > I'm not a Gnome user and I wo

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Hi Guix! > > I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM > instead. This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :) > > I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, > slim-service-type is not supposed to be exte

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Efraim Flashner writes: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:08:20AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >> > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> > >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >> > >> >> >> >> Have you tried removing /var/lib/gdm and the contents of your user >> >> account’s .local/sha

SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Guix! I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM instead. I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is. I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and `(co

Re: Linux-libre 5.2 has reached end-of-life. Okay to remove?

2019-10-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> Are there any objections to removing the linux-libre-*@5.2 packages? > > Please do! Done. Thanks for the lightning fast response :) Mark

Re: Linux-libre 5.2 has reached end-of-life. Okay to remove?

2019-10-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark, Mark H Weaver 写道: I just pushed a batch of kernel updates, but there was no corresponding 5.2 update because that series has reached end-of-life, and is no longer supported upstream. That means that it's potentially a security risk. Are there any objections to removing the linux-libre

Linux-libre 5.2 has reached end-of-life. Okay to remove?

2019-10-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello fellow Guix, I just pushed a batch of kernel updates, but there was no corresponding 5.2 update because that series has reached end-of-life, and is no longer supported upstream. That means that it's potentially a security risk. Are there any objections to removing the linux-libre-*@5.2 pac

Re: Question about sbcl-package->ecl-package

2019-10-18 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've merged your last 3 patches, thank you so much for your continuous > contribution to the best Common Lisp package manager ;) Thanks!

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-18 Thread P
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 18, 2019 10:05 AM, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > "[...] the underlying bug is a missing distinction between configuration > and state upstream…" See also the numerous programs that treat ~/.config like it was al

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Efraim, Efraim Flashner writes: [...] > I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config: > > ;; This directory shouldn't exist > (file-system > (device "none") > (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig") > (type "tmpfs") > (flags '(read-only)) > (check? #f)) yes! now that I read

Stateful system directories

2019-10-18 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:08:20AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Kei Kebreau writes: > > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > >> Kei Kebreau writes: > >> > >> > >> Have you tried removing /var/lib/gdm and the contents of your user > >> account’s .local/share/gnome* directories? > > > > ~/.loca