Re: Right way: define, build and install

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le Wed, 02 May 2018 18:10:21 +0200,
Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Jone <yeger9@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > About off-topic, if I understood you correctly, I have Rmail with
> > default settings. I do not know.  
> 
> Correction: I'm at UTC+2, like Julien.
> 
> Julien, you got the same time as me, right?

Yes, same thing.

> 
> From the raw content of Jone's email,
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 18:43:27 +0000
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The above date is still in the future as of this writing.  The
> timezone must be wrong.
> 
> What's your system timezone?  I think there is some configuration
> clash between Rmail, your SMTP agent and your system timezone.
> 
> > I go and look, but there are no comments :-(  
> 
> Comments are only used when deemed necessary, that is, mostly for
> unusual code.
> 
> For the first time it might take some time to grasp the mechanics of
> Guix package declarations.  Proceed step by step, change by change,
> until you get something working.  Post your code and the error message
> and Guix users will be able to help you out.
> 
> That said, I reckon the manual would certainly benefit from a detailed
> package declaration example where all fields would be carefully
> dissected for the first-time packagers.
> 
> --
> Pierre Neidhardt