Re: Maybe I made a mistake?

[oury.dustin@posteo.net]

I'm aware that binaries packaged for Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu 
don't work. However, not being a coder or good with reading or writing 
scheme code, I'm having to work around a few of these issues.

Regarding documentation, I feel as if the manual expects a certain 
familiarity with writing scheme code, and there isn't a lot of 
documentation for diagnosing little problems like there is with Debian 
and Ubuntu. I guess that comes down to how widespread those distros are 
in the GNU/Linux community.

On 08.06.2019 10:12, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Le 8 juin 2019 09:18:39 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> 
> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Some simple
>>> packaged software that work on those distros  like Debian don't work
>>> with Guix System […]
>> 
>> Do you mean binaries that were packaged for Debian won’t work 
>> unchanged
>> on Guix System?  This is expected as Guix does not provide libraries
>> and
>> the loader at the location where a Debian binary would expect them.
>> 
>> You would need to package the software for Guix to use it there.
> 
> Packaging software is not as hard as you think it is, but if you lack
> the time to learn, you can still add your sohtware to that list:
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Wishlist
> 
> It's not guaranteed that someone will work on it, as we are all 
> volunteers.
> 
>> 
>>> and I also find the documentation to be really hard
>>> for the non-tech savvy like me to understand. I'm confused when I
>>> should mess with my configuration file or when to do things manually,
>>> like adding a supplementary group for my primary account.
>> 
>> All of this should be done via the configuration file as the system is
>> mostly stateless, i.e. when you reboot your system is essentially set
>> up
>> from scratch using the files that were generated when you last ran
>> “guix
>> system reconfigure”.
>> 
>>> I really want to like Guix, but for now I might have to switch to
>>> something easier until the documentation gets fleshed out and more
>>> packages that aren't in yet are added to avoid frustration.
>> 
>> Can you point to specific problems you have with the documentation?
>> 
>> --
>> Ricardo