From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: A couple roadblocks using guix Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:49:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87oapqzgka.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOhN-0001Ld-6K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:49:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOhJ-0001gz-1u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:49:53 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:51777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEOhD-0001fE-LF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:49:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Omar Radwan's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:52:36 -0800") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Omar Radwan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Omar Radwan skribis: > One of the things is that during system initialization, the (gnu system > networking) module returns an error which reads "guix system: error: fail= ed > to load operating system file '/mnt/etc/config.scm': (misc-error #f "~A ~= S" > ("no code for module" (gnu system networking)) #f) > and that kind of makes things really annoying to manually restart > networking every reboot. There=E2=80=99s a typo in the 0.8 manual (which was fixed in fa1e31b8): it should read (gnu services networking). > Another thing is that is sort of a problem is during a windowmaker X > session, all my graphical applications(xterm, icecat, etc), are not listed > in the application menu and are not runnable I think this is the same problem as , which was fixed a while back. This suggests that it=E2=80=99s high time for a release. ;-) > The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow me > to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like f= or > instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build > programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declaration > to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I come > from Debian). Right. There=E2=80=99s one such meta-package, which is =E2=80=98gcc-toolch= ain=E2=80=99. Perhaps more are needed. OTOH, =E2=80=98guix environment=E2=80=99 can really do =E2=80=9Cmeta-packag= es on demand=E2=80=9D, so to speak, so I wonder whether things like =E2=80=98build-essential=E2=80=99 ma= ke so much sense in that context. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.