From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How about a 'guix-test-drive.scm'
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:40:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87powg5z28.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mdxzqor.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:09:24 -0500")
myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
> I installed guixSD on a headless server by cloning bare-bones.scm. So
> far, this is a highly enjoyable ride, thank you!
>
> IMHO it would be better if bare-bones.scm did not set the SSH port to
> 2222, since this tripped me up, and I am guessing it might befuddle
> others.
Oh, I see. This #:port-number thing was here mostly to show people how
to specify options, which I think is important, and I thought that
people would quickly notice the thing. But I don’t know!
> Another suggestion: for someone like me wanting to test drive guix
> quickly, it would sure be helpful if there was a 'guix-test-drive.scm'
> that includes emacs, guile, and everything else needed to try and enjoy
> all the cool features described in the guix INFO pages and/or shown in
> the "The Emacs of Distros" video.
>
> Further, it might be good to have two versions ...
>
> - guix-test-drive-desktop.scm
>
> - guix-test-drive-headless-server.scm - emacs set to run over both tty
> and X11
>
> In the meantime, does anyone have any bits and pieces of such a .scm
> they would care to share?
It seems to me that it’s just a matter of adding Emacs to the ‘packages’
field no? Or did you have anything else in mind?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2016-01-28 15:09 How about a 'guix-test-drive.scm' myglc2
2016-02-01 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-08 1:47 ` myglc2
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