From 0cff5b30711a8987bc0457c23a73982888ec802e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Othacehe Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 10:20:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] system: Provide mg instead of zile. Since the update to the 2.6.2 release, the closure size of zile has increased. Switch to mg which is lighter. * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages-interactive): Replace zile by mg. * doc/guix.texi (Proceeding with the Installation, Using the Configuration System): Adapt those sections. --- doc/guix.texi | 4 ++-- gnu/system.scm | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 18bc600440..46cec73d11 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2543,7 +2543,7 @@ provide the declaration of the operating system to be installed. To that end, the installation system comes with three text editors. We recommend GNU nano (@pxref{Top,,, nano, GNU nano Manual}), which supports syntax highlighting and parentheses matching; other editors -include GNU Zile (an Emacs clone), and +include mg (an Emacs clone), and nvi (a clone of the original BSD @command{vi} editor). We strongly recommend storing that file on the target root file system, say, as @file{/mnt/etc/config.scm}. Failing to do that, you will have lost your @@ -13485,7 +13485,7 @@ environment variable---in addition to the per-user profiles (@pxref{Invoking guix package}). The @code{%base-packages} variable provides all the tools one would expect for basic user and administrator tasks---including the GNU Core Utilities, the GNU Networking Utilities, -the GNU Zile lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep}, +the @command{mg} lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep}, etc. The example above adds GNU@tie{}Screen to those, taken from the @code{(gnu packages screen)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}). The diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm index 8a3ae27d04..3951a6806f 100644 --- a/gnu/system.scm +++ b/gnu/system.scm @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages package-management) #:use-module (gnu packages pciutils) #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo) + #:use-module (gnu packages text-editors) #:use-module (gnu packages wget) #:use-module (gnu packages zile) #:use-module (gnu services) @@ -775,7 +776,7 @@ of PROVENANCE-SERVICE-TYPE to its services." (define %base-packages-interactive ;; Default set of common interactive packages. - (list less zile nano + (list less mg nano nvi man-db info-reader ;the standalone Info reader (no Perl) -- 2.32.0