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From: Charles Direg <carloshujara@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about one package
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 21:30:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACvft+WVxq7+r=T2+4Qr0TqjMh_BpUxFVQj+GH5mbzQHoocL5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0qhs4gv.fsf@elephly.net>

Hello Ricardo and jbranso, thank you very much for your reply.

I appreciate your comments and will take them into account.

Agreed Ricardo, I will read the cookbook, thanks for the recommendation ...
If I would like to continue learning Guix and especially put it as my main
system, only that I was missing that package to use it on a daily basis.

Another question, how could I change the theme in GNOME? Since in other
distros, it was simply to put the theme in /usr/share/themes, how could I
do it in guix?

Thank you very much again.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:47 PM Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> > First of all, I apologize for using a Gmail email, it happens that I do
> not
> > know any mail server that is free, but, if you could give me any
> > recommendation in this regard, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> There’s nothing wrong with using an email server that is operated by
> somebody else, so there’s absolutely no need to apologize.
>
> Furthermore, it’s up to *you* what software you use.  Some people
> construe the use of proprietary software or centralized services as a
> moral failing of some sort — it certainly is not.  Proprietary software
> denies those who use it control.  That is why it is injust.
>
> We only ask that proprietary software should not be endorsed or
> discussed on the Guix project communication channels.  But nobody should
> judge others for the software they choose to use (or accept to be used
> by).
>
> > The software that is on this page:
> > https://www.simulide.com/p/home.html
> > From my perspective, it is free software, since it is published under the
> > GPL, however it is not within the Guix repository, could you add it so
> that
> > it can be available? I'm not so sure how to create the package, so I come
> > to you.
>
> If you are interested in learning how to package this, we could do this
> together.  This is a Qt5 application – we have a couple of those in the
> repository.  The README.md file lists a few dependencies, most of which
> look familiar to me.  The only difficult part might be to integrate the
> AVR GCC toolchain, but we can cross that bridge when we get there.
>
> If you like to give it a try, I suggest you read and follow along in the
> packaging tutorial in the Cookbook:
>
>    https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging.html
>
> Once you have a rough understanding of how things are designed to work
> we can work on this package together here on help-guix@gnu.org.  Sounds
> good?
>
> > And finally, I am a university student, so I am forced to use proprietary
> > services under the web such as Google Meet, Gmail, etc. Could it be
> > feasible to use guix with these services without compromising freedom, or
> > would it be better to continue using Windows for these areas?
>
> At least for Gmail there’s a way to use it without proprietary software
> (= their JavaScript that your browser mindlessly executes).  You can use
> Gmail as an IMAP/POP + SMTP server and connect to it with free software.
>
> I no longer use Gmail, but the solution I use also works for Gmail:
> offlineimap (for synchronizing a local copy of my email with the IMAP
> server), msmtpd (for sending emails through the remote SMTP server), mu
> (for local indexing and search), and mu4e (for a mail client in Emacs).
>
> --
> Ricardo
>


-- 
~ Huerta Jara Carlos Abraham

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-08 16:02 Question about one package Charles Direg
2021-03-08 20:37 ` jbranso
2021-03-08 21:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-09  3:30   ` Charles Direg [this message]
2021-03-19 12:52     ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-19 22:58       ` Luis Felipe
2021-03-19 23:20         ` Luis Felipe
2021-03-26 19:48 ` Charles Direg

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