Re: npm global prefix needs to be a writeable directory

2020-11-25 Thread Ryan Prior
On November 26, 2020, Jelle Licht wrote: > On other distros it defaults to a location that is not writable by > normal users either; Indeed I can confirm that Ubuntu node also has this problem. > Node doesn't do this on other distros either, correct? > [snip] > Another way folks solved this

Re: npm global prefix needs to be a writeable directory

2020-11-25 Thread Jelle Licht
Hey, Ryan Prior writes: > Hi folks! I stumbled across an issue with the node package today and > wanted to send a report before I forget. > > npm assumes that the global prefix is a writeable folder. Operations > like `npm link` will fail if it isn't. Right now our node package > doesn't set a

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:17 +0100 zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 23:28, raingloom wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > >> > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 > >> > minutes, sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:31:53PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > Oh yea, regarding that, I really think it would have made a whole lot > more sense if people just sent in a photo, instead of DDoS-ing the > network. I don't know how BBB works nor did I measure it, but one can expect a videochat feed

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:47:46 +0100 Michael Rohleder wrote: > raingloom writes: > > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently > > it's still pretty heavy. > > I had a similar issue, but only in the

npm global prefix needs to be a writeable directory

2020-11-25 Thread Ryan Prior
Hi folks! I stumbled across an issue with the node package today and wanted to send a report before I forget. npm assumes that the global prefix is a writeable folder. Operations like `npm link` will fail if it isn't. Right now our node package doesn't set a prefix, so it defaults to the

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 13:24, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote: >> Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, >> except "Surfingkeys". >> >> Computer is something like this (neofetch): > > [...] > > Hm... it

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 23:28, raingloom wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: >> > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, >> > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently >> > it's still pretty heavy. What

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:53:21 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently > > it's still pretty heavy. > >

Re: GNU Guix 1.2.0rc1 available for testing!

2020-11-25 Thread Tobias Platen
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:13:28 +0100 Mathieu Othacehe wrote: Just saw that GNU Guix 1.2.0 released was recently released. In the Ode to 1.2.0 the back vocals are done by Festival (likely singing-mode.scm). Can I have the XML file that that was given to Festival. > > Hey, > > > One this patch

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote: > Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, > except "Surfingkeys". > > Computer is something like this (neofetch): [...] Hm... it seems unlikely that this computer, which is relatively powerful,

Re: Phases and snippets no longer returning a Boolean

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:02:28PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > Cool for the change! > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 14:27, Danny Milosavljevic > wrote: > > >> I only removed trailing #t in a couple of files unlikely to result in > >> merge conflicts down the road, as Marius rightfully suggested

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:19:17PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Since this historical place would not change* “soon”, first because we > like it (I speak for myself) and second because it is accommodating, > ideas to deal with poor network are welcome. :-) The standard solution is to do cellular

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Michael Rohleder
Hi Simon, zimoun writes: > As Leo asked: Can you say what web browser you were using? Bonus points > if you can give us the exact version, assuming it's from Guix. And what > kind of computer did you use? Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, except

Re: Phases and snippets no longer returning a Boolean

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi, Cool for the change! On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 14:27, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: >> I only removed trailing #t in a couple of files unlikely to result in >> merge conflicts down the road, as Marius rightfully suggested on IRC. > > I agree that we shouldn't graciously remove "#t"s in existing

Re: Phases and snippets no longer returning a Boolean

2020-11-25 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:17:41 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > With these changes, the return value of origin snippets and build phases > is now ignored. Good riddance :) No, seriously, good change. > I only removed trailing #t in a couple of files unlikely to result in > merge

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi Michael, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 11:47, Michael Rohleder wrote: > I had a similar issue, but only in the break where we had lots of > webcams: After about 5 or 6 webcams, my (slow) net connection became > satturated and BBB seems to loose more and more > informations/connections/gets out of

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi Arun, Thank you for your kind words. On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 21:13, Arun Isaac wrote: > I'm happy it was an online event and I could participate. I live in > India and travelling to Europe is a bank-breaking endeavour that is > normally out of the question. I think even future offline Guix

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Arun Isaac
Leo Famulari writes: > Yes, absolutely! I do this sort of thing — hybrid events — for my day > job, and I could help make it happen in the future. Thank you, that is much appreciated! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Welcome to Grub!... for a minute

2020-11-25 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Hi, I just wanted to report (although this is probably already known) that I had to wait for a long time (probably more than a minute) staring at "Welcome to Grub!" screen upon reboot, after accumulating thousands of guix system generations. I was experimenting with something and I suspected

Re: Phases and snippets no longer returning a Boolean

2020-11-25 Thread 宋文武
Ludovic Courtès writes: > With these changes, the return value of origin snippets and build phases > is now ignored. > ... > > That’s it! Thoughts? Comments? Indeed better! Return ‘#t’ feel perlish, perl requires return ‘1’ at the end of each module.

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Michael Rohleder
raingloom writes: > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently it's > still pretty heavy. I had a similar issue, but only in the break where we had lots of webcams: After about 5 or 6 webcams, my (slow)