From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Divan Santana Subject: Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 23:09:03 +0200 Message-ID: <8737punbbk.fsf@santanas.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aynUg-0008FM-Bc for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 17:41:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aynUR-0001om-HE for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 17:41:00 -0400 Received: from outmail136026.authsmtp.com ([62.13.136.26]:15141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aynUQ-0001kc-0d for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 17:40:51 -0400 Received: from mail-c247.authsmtp.com (mail-c247.authsmtp.com [62.13.128.247]) by punt21.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/) with ESMTP id u46L99oF042676 for ; Fri, 6 May 2016 22:09:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.santanas.co.za ([41.169.42.49]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/) with ESMTP id u46L9498075145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 6 May 2016 22:09:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from authenticated-user (mail.santanas.co.za [41.169.42.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.santanas.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04D4120014 for ; Fri, 6 May 2016 23:09:03 +0200 (SAST) 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: help-guix@gnu.org I'd love to try out and properly switch to GuixSD. I've always been a huge Arch fan, and lately Parabola but there are many things that look great about GuixSD. Glad to see this distro and the work going on here. I know it's still in early early dev stage but a few blocker packages preventing me to switch are: 1) virt-manager - Since I may rely on a few VMs more as GuixSD has limited packages for now. Unless there is another easy way to run VMs? I'm not too familar with using qemu directly... 2) Davmail is GPL, would be nice if it was packaged. For Exchange email support. 3) Gajim omemo support is nice to have too. 4) parcellite clipboard. Unless there is another good clipboard program in the repos? (without pulling in too many deps) 5) libpurple and sipe is another nice to have. Bitblee libpurple+sipe even nicer. For the most part is seems almost all the essentials for me are there. Excited to see the progress with the distro. Wish you all the best of luck and hope one day in the future to get involved - can't at the moment. -- Best regards, Divan Santana