Guix as a package manager for Emacs

2020-01-21 Thread EuAndreh via
Hi Guix! How can I get in Guix something similar to Nix's emacsWithPackages: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-emacs-config It shows how to use Nix's packaging capabilities to setup and configure Emacs, instead of having "use-package" (or similar tools) downloading and installing packages. I

Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience

2020-01-21 Thread ndre
Hello, ter 14 jan 2020 às 12:23:37 (1579015417), m...@ambrevar.xyz enviou: > I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman > terms why Guix matters. > > I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical vocabulary. > > Let me know what you think! Nice work

Re: Passwords inside System Configuration

2020-01-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-01-21, Raghav Gururajan wrote: >> Note: The hash of this initial password will be available in a file >> in >> /gnu/store, readable by all the users, so this method must be used >> with >> care. > > I see. But why would it be a concern? It is not feasible to brute-force > SHA-512 hash righ

Re: Passwords inside System Configuration

2020-01-21 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Giovanni! > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (user-account > (name "charlie") > (group "users") > > ;; Specify a SHA-512-hashed initial password. > (password (crypt "InitialPassword!" "$6$abc"))) > --8<---cut here---end-

Re: qtwebengine support/security status

2020-01-21 Thread Jack Hill
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, Thanks to Mike and everyone for working on qtwebengine and qutebrowser. I'm happy and thankful that Guix's features and the community's commitment allow packaging these in a principled way. Before I use these packages to browse untrusted websit

Re: guix import texlive fails because of svn

2020-01-21 Thread EuAndreh via
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Looking at the strace output I see that SVN complains about the temp > directory already existing. This happens in download-svn-to-store in > guix/svn-download.scm where we generate a temporary directory and pass > it as an argument to build:svn-fetch. > > Yes, this must

Re: guix import texlive fails because of svn

2020-01-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Matthew Leach writes: > Hi Guix, > > I'm trying to import a texlive package with the command: `guix import > texlive savetrees'. I get the following output: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > following redirection to `https://ctan.org/xml/1.2/pkg/savetrees'