Re: Add a pastebin client to the next guixsd image release

[Ludovic Courtès]

ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> ng0 (2016-12-04 18:16 +0000) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think the next release image for GuixSD should include
>>>> wgetpaste as a tool. This would make it possible for people who
>>>> are stuck in the image and who are doing the installation, to
>>>> paste the config.scm or any other command output.
>>>
>>> I agree: some *simple* paste tool would be good in the system image for
>>> such cases.
>>
>> Any suggestions of a package?  We don’t have a wgetpaste package, do we?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>
>
> As far as I know, Leo added it some days ago:
>
> address@hidden ~$ guix package -s wgetpaste
> name: wgetpaste
> version: 2.28
> outputs: out
> systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux mips64el-linux
> dependencies: 
> location: gnu/packages/wget.scm:66:2
> homepage: http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/
> license: Public Domain
> synopsis: Script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services
> description: `wgetpaste' is an extremely simple command-line interface to 
> various online pastebin services.

Oh indeed, sorry.

I agree that this is useful, but I’m not entirely clear that adding it
to the installation image by default is needed?  (One can always install
it in there if needed.)

Ludo’.