From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in! Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:37:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87eex0nue2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874ky4s2m2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ihyoM-0007Ih-OV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:38:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Arun Isaac's message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:11:36 +0530") 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" To: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Congrats, Pierre! That=E2=80=99s really great news! Arun Isaac skribis: >> 1. Parameterized packages >> (Previous discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2= 019-05/msg00285.html) > > I've been looking for something like this. I want to run a more minimal > system like I used to with Parabola GNU/Linux. I often find Guix's > packages to be too heavy and hard to modify without a lot of > effort. Package inheritance is itself easy to accomplish with Guile code > but getting the modified package to build successfully is sometimes > difficult. It would certainly help if Guix had pre-parameterized > packages that one could modify easily. However, this can enormously > increase the burden on Guix packagers. However, we can discuss that > later when we have more specific proposals. Yes, I=E2=80=99m very much on the same line of thought: it sounds both exci= ting from a user viewpoint (colleagues of mine in HPC would love it) and scary from a maintainer viewpoint (the configuration space could explode, how do we ensure we ship packages that actually work?). Let=E2=80=99s see! >> 2. File search >> (Previous discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2= 019-03/msg00236.html) > > This feature would be very nice too. Currently, I fall back to one of my > Parabola GNU/Linux installations, and run pkgfile there to get an > approximate idea of what Guix package a certain file might be in. That=E2=80=99d be great to have. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.