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From: indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>,
	Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: use guix shell with a file (e.g. tissue.scm)
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:43:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dea724e083b21730ad721817229d1ba@libre.brussels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz99u6g6.fsf@xelera.eu>

:)

I have always appreciated Arun's design choices.

His inputs regarding Skribilo and Xapian mark him down as a man of 
exquisite taste.
You should consider joining those mailinglists.

On 26-11-2022 15:38, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just want to share with you a temporary solution for users who wish 
> to
> try out tissue or other packages before they are included in Guix
> upstream.
> 
> ...and yes, unlike me advanced Guix users may find this obvious :-)
> 
> Put this file
> 
> 
> 
> in your preferred directory (~/guix/unpackaged/ in the example below)
> and then:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 
> guix shell -f ~/guix/unpackaged/tissue.scm -- tissue help
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The first time the package(s) gets compiled, so it'll take as time as
> needed, from the second time onwards the guix shell cache will do its
> job and the command will run immediatly.
> 
> With this trick you can use Guix to install tissue [1] and use it for
> your project - or tissue issues [2] - before tissue is packaged in 
> Guix.
> 
> «One Guix to rule them all» :-D
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> [1] even on foreign distros obviuosly
> 
> [2] web view: https://issues.genenetwork.org/?type=open-issue

-- 
Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-26 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-26 14:38 use guix shell with a file (e.g. tissue.scm) Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-11-26 18:43 ` indieterminacy [this message]
2022-11-27 21:12   ` Arun Isaac
2022-11-28 17:13 ` Andrea Rossi

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