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From: Michael Zucchi <notzed@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: practicality of custom config
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 09:53:18 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <955074b7-be07-ba7b-385a-1217e5c74afb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8voddtf.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>


On 31/12/19 8:20 pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Indeed, in practice it's not easy to tell Guix "build a system without
> sound" or things like that.

But I'm just using guix atop slackware64, and sound already works fine.  
There was no need to derisively misquote part of my query.

> An option would be to implement a feature à-la USE flags (as in Portage
> on Gentoo).
> This was discussed previously here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg00285.html
>
> I'm planning to work on it in the coming weeks.  Feedback welcome!
> Stay tuned!
>

Ok cheers, that's the sort of thing I was curious about.  It seems involved.

  Z

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-31 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-30 23:29 practicality of custom config Michael Zucchi
2019-12-31  9:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-31 23:23   ` Michael Zucchi [this message]
2020-01-01 14:54     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-01  9:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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