From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Of sounds and locales Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:01:23 +0100 Message-ID: <877fm0n5b0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <725fd1253bc420d3e1e6bfa49bbf9b79@autoproduzioni.net> <87twsp47bm.fsf@netris.org> <871tcig41z.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtAzn-0007nQ-NW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 04:01:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtAzk-0000H0-CW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 04:01:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: (matias jose seco's message of "Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:26:39 +0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: matias_jose_seco@autoproduzioni.net Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org matias_jose_seco@autoproduzioni.net skribis: >> By the way, recently the service API was changed, so those service >> definitions will not work anymore. > > At this point i was exploring the possibility to completely avoid > compiling by > defining only-substitutes installations: > i couldn't find any option for forcing only-substitutes; is there any? No. The problem is that, sometimes, substitutes are unavailable. In that case, there=E2=80=99s no solution other than building things yourself. (Though in practice, of course, the goal is to make that situation very rare.) > For the powertop service definition i'll have to adapt the code to the > new API, > or it will be impossible to add custom services at all? Yes it=E2=80=99s still possible. It might be that Mark already has an updated version; Mark? Ludo=E2=80=99.