Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

Hi

On 2018-11-11 09:04, swedebugia wrote:
> On 2018-11-07 19:20, Leo Famulari wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
>> In general, we don't change upstream defaults in Guix except when it's
>> required for portability or to fix really egregious problems (i.e.
>> security bugs). This is different from distros like Debian that
>> basically fork the software and make a huge number of changes to suit
>> the package maintainer's taste.
>>
>> This keeps package maintenance relatively easy for us and ensures that
>> important changes get pushed upstream so that all users can benefit.

I understand. But this is a severe usability but as long as we encourage 
people to use nano in the install guide and include it in %base-packages.

We could solve this by removing it from there and deleting all 
references to nano in the manual, but that seems like more work and 
somewhat counter productive compared to adding a flag.

>>
>> Having said that, this line wrapping thing is a very bad default, and I
>> think we should change it. Nano is one of the editors in the GuixSD
>> installer. It needs to be easy to use.
>>
>> If we change the default in our package, we need to file a bug upstream:
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano

Hi. I found https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?36523

Tried to create an account to suggest them to reopen it and fix it 
upstream by changing the default and failed :/

Savannah seems broken.

Can somebody with an account do it?

I suggest we disable with compile flag until they fixed it.

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia