From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A couple roadblocks using guix
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZAOt+_QFSQj96=SCVNcqH6Nj2vNwKzMwZrcOOQfSYq0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oapqzgka.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow me
>> to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like for
>> instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build
>> programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declaration
>> to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I come
>> from Debian).
>
> Right. There’s one such meta-package, which is ‘gcc-toolchain’.
> Perhaps more are needed.
>
> OTOH, ‘guix environment’ can really do “meta-packages on demand”, so to
> speak, so I wonder whether things like ‘build-essential’ make so much
> sense in that context.
However, because 'guix environment' doesn't manipulate a user's
profile, I think that it would still be very useful to create these
meta-packages. For this specific case, yes, 'guix environment' can be
used to fetch the necessary GCC toolchain to develop something, but
what about non-development packages? It would be very convenient to
be able to run 'guix package -i xfce-desktop', for example.
My 2 cents.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 1:52 A couple roadblocks using guix Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 13:02 ` Adam Pribyl
2015-01-22 14:55 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 20:57 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2015-01-23 8:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-23 21:48 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-24 6:09 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-24 20:27 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-25 17:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <CAMwaQAKUCxMoQU6N+PnDChhnfHBS2Vp0fBF4rS-pa-Va-HFjNQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-25 18:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 20:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-24 21:57 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-24 22:54 ` David Thompson
2015-01-22 21:08 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-22 23:59 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-23 8:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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