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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: xpip install -U 'xonsh[full]'
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:03:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b22ec0d-8de6-b0f0-3f47-f670a91b1c22@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220724172928.GB13146@gac>


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On 25-07-2022 00:29, jgart wrote:
> When installing xonsh I get the following after starting:
>
> ```
> You are currently using the readline backend. For interactive tab-completion, on-the-fly syntax highlighting, and more, install prompt_toolkit by running:
>
>    xpip install -U 'xonsh[full]'
>
> ```
>
> How should Guix handle optionally installing xonsh[full]?

I guess it could ask to install it with Guix instead. It's a bit 
complicated with the multiple mechanisms (guix install, guix home, "guix 
shell foo bar -- baz"), but that can be avoided by patching it to 
rephrase it a bit:

```
You are currently using the readline backend. For interactive 
tab-completion, on-the-fly syntax highlighting, and more, install the 
'python-prompt-toolkit' package.
```

OTOH, from what I've gathered from previous discussions, some people 
want "guix build --source" to be the unmodified source code, with as 
only exception non-freeness removal, so patching would be out. E.g., 
doing the "-O1" bugfix in the shepherd package as a patch (well, 
snippet, but same thing basically) was rejected by some people in 
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54216#5>

But at the same time, we patch glibc, gcc and guile-fibers without any 
complaints while those are more complicates patches and (in case of 
glibc and gcc), even Guix-specific, while the shepherd patch is simple 
and non-Guix specific.

(I don't understand anything from those discussions)

Greetings,
Maxime.


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      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-24 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-24 22:29 xpip install -U 'xonsh[full]' jgart
2022-07-24 23:03 ` Maxime Devos [this message]

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