From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Zucchi Subject: Re: practicality of custom config Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 09:53:18 +1030 Message-ID: <955074b7-be07-ba7b-385a-1217e5c74afb@gmail.com> References: <87o8voddtf.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1imQrE-0006vc-RO for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:23:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1imQrD-0000di-Rh for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:23:24 -0500 Received: from mail-pf1-x433.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::433]:34534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1imQrD-0000cL-Lq for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:23:23 -0500 Received: by mail-pf1-x433.google.com with SMTP id i6so13380427pfc.1 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:23:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87o8voddtf.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Content-Language: en-AU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt , help-guix 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