Re: Deleting unnecessary services from %desktop-services

2018-11-30 Thread znavko
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus! ok, thank you. But now I've not achieved what I need. avahi-damon, ntpd, networking rest in my system.   (services (cons*  ;;(tor-service)     (service postgresql-service-type)     (xfce-desktop-service)     (modify-services 

Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?

2018-11-30 Thread Mark H Weaver
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Contrary to what Pierre wrote above, I've found that the use of these >> flags certainly does _not_ lead to an ever-growing store. > > According to the discussion I linked above, The reason behind the ever-growing > store are substitutes. So if you don't use them,

Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?

2018-11-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> Contrary to what Pierre wrote above, I've found that the use of these > flags certainly does _not_ lead to an ever-growing store. According to the discussion I linked above, The reason behind the ever-growing store are substitutes. So if you don't use them, then the store size should be

Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?

2018-11-30 Thread Mark H Weaver
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I've been bugged by this as well (see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-09/msg00028.html). There > are > a few options beside Ricardo's suggestion: > > - You can start the Guix daemon with --gc-keep-outputs (see "(guix) Invoking > guix-daemon" in

Re: Deleting unnecessary services from %desktop-services

2018-11-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zna...@tutanota.com writes: > Guile Manual says 'remove' returns elements. But I need to remove elements. “remove” does what you want. The “services” field expects a list of services. When using “remove” on a list of services it returns a new list of (possibly fewer) services. That’s

Single user mode in GuixSD

2018-11-30 Thread znavko
Hello, Guix Help! Once I've lost root password and need to restore root password in GuixSD. I've tried to press 'e' in GRUB, added init=/bin/sh and booted into it. But login screen appeared, if it was the usual boot. And I need to use usb-stick, mount file system, delay root hash from

scheme shells (was Re: Failing to use guile-bash)

2018-11-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi David, David Larsson writes: > Hi, > I installed the guile-bash package and tried to use it as below but > can't get it to work. Anyone who is successfully using it? unfortunately the project is currently retired: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/guile.scm#n1751

Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot

2018-11-30 Thread Arun Isaac
> One thing I proposed long ago is this: > . It would allow us to address > this kind of issue but it has the drawback that it makes it harder to > reason about the relationships among services: anything can happen. I can see how the proposed finalization