[Nix-dev] Gnash and buildfarm.

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I noticed the following: 1. Buildfarm trunk build fails over and over again. 2. The only two packages from build-for-release that fail are updated Gnash packages. 3. The real build failure is DejaG

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Marc Weber
> Hmm, why would you want to mark software like that? For example, if I as > a user want to install Skype, I just want to have it installed. What use > is it for me if the system first says: "Sorry, Dave, can't do that. You > first need to sign with your blood that you are not a true open source >

[Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Eelco Dolstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think I would like separating the Nix expressions for non-free > packages > from Nixpkgs, since that would make live more difficult for users who do want > to > use a non-free package (say the NVIDIA driver), but it would be a good idea >

[Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Arie Middelkoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Currently, Nixpkgs contains a fair amount of non-free software, some of >> which gets installed by default. I would personally like it if we would >> gradually separate non-free software from free software in Nixpkgs

Re: [Nix-dev] Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, Daniel Clark wrote: > I'm in the process of seeing how hard it would be to port NixOS to > non-intel architectures / boot loaders other than grub. Specifically > I'm working with a Loongson 2f machine, which is a mipsel64 (64-bit > MIPS little-endian) machine that uses the PMON 2000 boot load

Re: [Nix-dev] Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Armijn Hemel
hi Daniel, > I'm in the process of seeing how hard it would be to port NixOS to > non-intel architectures / boot loaders other than grub. Specifically > I'm working with a Loongson 2f machine, which is a mipsel64 (64-bit > MIPS little-endian) machine that uses the PMON 2000 boot loader. If you ar

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arie Middelkoop wrote: >> Currently, Nixpkgs contains a fair amount of non-free software, some of >> which gets installed by default. I would personally like it if we would >> gradually separate non-free software from free software in Nixpkgs, so >> t

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Arie Middelkoop
Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > "Daniel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd also like to know if there is any interest amongst the NixOS >> developers to make NixOS a distribution that would be compliant with >> the FSF/GNU Project's Guidelines for Free System Distributions [1] and >>

[Nix-dev] Re: User environment hooks . o ( started dreaming / don't know )

2008-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Michael Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The problem is with directories (info "(texinfo)Installing Dir >> Entries"). Directories show the list of available manuals when running >> `info' (or `C-h i' in Emacs) with no arguments. >> >> Conversely, accessing a sp

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: User environment hooks . o ( started dreaming / don't know )

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The problem is with directories (info "(texinfo)Installing Dir > Entries"). Directories show the list of available manuals when running > `info' (or `C-h i' in Emacs) with no arguments. > > Conversely, accessing a specific ma

[Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

2008-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, "Daniel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd also like to know if there is any interest amongst the NixOS > developers to make NixOS a distribution that would be compliant with > the FSF/GNU Project's Guidelines for Free System Distributions [1] and > thus recommendable by the Free Sof

[Nix-dev] Re: User environment hooks . o ( started dreaming / don't know )

2008-10-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Andres Loeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, this is another argument against hooks. The system environment > can change without user action, so ideally all "effects" of such a change > should be immediate, and not require user action either. On the other hand, > we know the path of