From: Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A couple roadblocks using guix
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:59:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMwaQA+qJREyi5P48=Sz77Za1sLbz8ii1GNXS1p=VU3XKpvo+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oapqzgka.fsf@gnu.org>
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>I think this is the same problem as <http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>, which
>was fixed a while back.
Is there any way to fix this problem for the time being without having to
wait for a release?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > One of the things is that during system initialization, the (gnu system
> > networking) module returns an error which reads "guix system: error:
> failed
> > to load operating system file '/mnt/etc/config.scm': (misc-error #f "~A
> ~S"
> > ("no code for module" (gnu system networking)) #f)
> > and that kind of makes things really annoying to manually restart
> > networking every reboot.
>
> There’s a typo in the 0.8 manual (which was fixed in fa1e31b8): it
> should read (gnu services networking).
>
> > Another thing is that is sort of a problem is during a windowmaker X
> > session, all my graphical applications(xterm, icecat, etc), are not
> listed
> > in the application menu and are not runnable
>
> I think this is the same problem as <http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>, which
> was fixed a while back.
>
> This suggests that it’s high time for a release. ;-)
>
> > 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.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 23:59 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
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 [this message]
2015-01-23 8:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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