From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:11:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cu7pngqls8f.fsf@systemreboot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ky4s2m2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
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> I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet "Next
> Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has been
> accepted!
Great, congratulations! :-)
> 1. Parameterized packages
> (Previous discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg00285.html)
I've been looking for something like this. I want to run a more minimal
system like I used to with Parabola GNU/Linux. I often find Guix's
packages to be too heavy and hard to modify without a lot of
effort. Package inheritance is itself easy to accomplish with Guile code
but getting the modified package to build successfully is sometimes
difficult. It would certainly help if Guix had pre-parameterized
packages that one could modify easily. However, this can enormously
increase the burden on Guix packagers. However, we can discuss that
later when we have more specific proposals.
> 2. File search
> (Previous discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00236.html)
This feature would be very nice too. Currently, I fall back to one of my
Parabola GNU/Linux installations, and run pkgfile there to get an
approximate idea of what Guix package a certain file might be in.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-14 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-13 14:48 NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in! Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 20:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-12-14 11:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 21:21 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-14 11:46 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-14 17:04 ` zimoun
2019-12-14 21:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-14 17:41 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2019-12-14 19:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-19 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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