Notices by Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr), page 4

@gugurumbe I wouldn’t say the survey presented lack of non-free software as a problem, but it’s true that it explicitly listed it as an option, particularly for drivers.

I’m not a maintainer but I don’t expect nor desire a change in what Guix provides: it should all be free software, and it’s fine to have third-party channels providing non-free software.

The question of non-free firmware could be discussed separately though, like it was in Debian.

On this topic, while I was looking for something else :-) I found that Lix (and Nix?) has what they call “installables”, which ‘nix run’ runs in a container:
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/lix/nix/run.md

‘nix run’ seems to have the same goal as the wrapper produced by ‘guix pack -R’: mapping the store at the right place in the application’s namespace. It’s not about running an application with the least authority.

@kris I suppose some of the interface that’s currently private could move to (guix least-authority) for example. It’s just that providing a clean Scheme-level interface requires more thought.

@janneke QubesOS goes way beyond that, but in a way it’s a step in that direction, sure!

@fnat Sort of, yes. With ‘guix shell’ you end up with long command lines that you have to figure out by yourself (passing the right ‘--share’ and ‘-E’ flags, etc.).

Here ‘guix container run’ can guess based on the dependencies of what you want to run.

‘guix container run’ for least-authority program execution:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75595

Yay? Meh?

#Guix

Playing with the idea of "different perspectives on the same story"!

A QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle.

The #Guix Consensus Document (GCD) process is open for deliberation to all team members until Feb. 5th 👇
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74736#91

Exciting times!

@janneke @JeroenBaten Interesting! Sounds similar to Stow, which was from about the same period no? Or to “environment modules” (still widely used in HPC), which dates back to the mid-1990s.

@JeroenBaten What’s cadappl?

Meet #Guix at #FOSDEM!
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2025/

En route pour le CINES. 🖧💪

@zimoun With teams and ‘CODEOWNERS’, you get notified only for things relevant to you.

And then, we have to admit that the messaging interface for issues/PRs rich, with automatic connections among them and with commits.

There’s also a search function for issues, available via ‘fj-list-issues-search’ (or ‘s’ from the issue list).

@Cuicas Gnus (with scoring and all the bells and whistles) and server-side filtering (Sieve).

As I use ‘M-x fj-view-notifications’, I start dreaming of a time where I’d no longer miss comments on patch reviews and at the same time regain control of my mailbox.

OK, I’m probably overly optimistic. Still…

There’s a patch adding a Hetzner backend to ‘guix deploy’:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75144

I think that’s pretty cool.

#Guix

@crowdagger Mais donc oui, peut-être « pensé » ?

@VioB

@crowdagger Je me suis toujours demandé d’où venait ce mot, mais Wiktionary a une théorie :
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thunk#Etymology_3

@VioB

Du coup j'ai eu un doute mais oui c'est possible (j'ai pas réussi à le faire avec defmacro parce que skill issues)

@csantosb Definitely, we should do that! I had to fix a couple of minor issues this morning, but really, I’m totally sold.

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