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“Packaging #Rust for Fedora” Good to see that we #Guix are not the only ones struggling. The dismissal of distribution concerns by Rust folks is a problem; developer use cases have been “optimized” with Cargo, but at the expense of users, QA, and more. Ricardo contributed a neat cookbook section on all things #containers in #Guix: You enjoy #Guix but miss /bin, /usr, and friends? Good news! ‘guix shell --emulate-fhs’ has landed! Example: ‘guix shell --container --emulate-fhs coreutils’ spawns a container that has ‘/bin/ls’ just like on any reasonable distro.
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 @civodul Nice! Thank you! That has the potential of solving a ton of problems for me! @civodul Very nice feature! However, the first time I ran it, it worked fine, but when I re-ran it with the same package combination, I got the following error. $ guix shell --container --emulate-fhs coreutils which -- which ls Changing the specified package combination or deleting files under $HOME/.cache/guix seems to work. Fellow hackers, #GNU #Guile no longer requires copyright assignment: @fidel When using ‘guix shell’ for development, one would usually prefer not to have an FHS layout to make sure the build machinery doesn’t have hidden assumptions. Also, ‘--emulate-fhs’ pulls in a special libc variant; it’s usually just an additional substitute download, but still an extra cost. Being a #FreeSoftware maintainer is not about coding; @bzg explained that very clearly: The #Guix maintainer to-do list as we sketched it in 2019 is similar and involves very little coding: Another way to contribute to #Guix is through translations and #i18n, and @roptat nicely showed how to get started: “Wrapping up Ten Years of Guix in Paris” The good news: videos of 34 talks at #Guix10Years are now available! And there’s a lot of really cool stuff in there! “Hacking anything with GNU Guix”, by Marius Bakke:  Not only does #Guix10Years have a great program, it also has great kakemonos designed by the awesome @luis_felipe. Design available here 👉 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/promotional/retractable-banner (Photo courtesy of co-organizer Tanguy.)  Believe it or not, there are #Guile bindings for #OCaml¹: I don’t want to know what happens with garbage collection. ¹Just packaged by @pukkamustard for Guix! We’re just two weeks to the #GNU #Guix 🎂 event in Paris, woohoo!! ▶ https://10years.guix.gnu.org/ If you’re into #FreeSoftware or #research, it’s still time to register and join the fun! “It wasn’t for nothing” Inspiring & humbling article by fellow hacker Marius Bakke on what #Guix hacking means to them. A good illustration of #FreeSoftware being not just about software. @mray I don’t think there’s any such thing as a “GUI user”. A “non-coding” person can use the CLI, too; I encourage you to give it a try. GUIs have lots of qualities—they help discover features and get started quickly. But here the project is also about helping users emancipate and become autonomous; GUIs all too often work against that. We’re a bit more than one month away from the #Guix 🎂 conference in Paris! I’m already excited about the program and I hope many folks will join, be they of the #research type, #FreeSoftware enthusiasts, or die-hard Guix hackers. Check it out! @civodul Gday Or is it actual based and stripped out the subverted corporation creepwere Tom Lord passed away. He started Guile and GNU arch (tla), probably the first free distributed version control system. “Is reproducibility practical?” 👇 This new post asks whether reproducible deployment is a luxury for “professionals”, clarifies what #reproducibility means and how it affects #research practices. @civodul
> Fortunately, compilers behave in a deterministic fashion: given the same input, they produce the same output. 🙈 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/4012 #Guix web site now speaks Norwegian! You too can help #Guix speaks your native language: |
@ebassi I’ve found Discourse’s onboarding features smart—messages essentially getting you to learn the etiquette, to better understand where the other person is talking from (whether they’re a newcomer or not), and so on. It probably helps lower the barrier to entry and make interactions smoother.
(I find it intriguing though that we need such “social prostheses” in the first place; is the on-line etiquette too different from real-life interactions?)