Re: Creating a reliable bootstrap for building from source

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi David,

David Pirotte <address@hidden> skribis:

>> As a user I want something like ‘apt-get update’, which is what ‘guix
>> pull’ tries to do.
>
> For end-users, cool stuff would be:
>
>       nguix   [ guix-ncurse
>
>               u       [ update the aptitude cached list of all packages,
>                       [ installed or not... just package descriptions, nothing
>                       [ has been downloaded yet
>               U       [ mark as 'wish to update'
>               g       [ list the above marked for update packages, then fine 
> tune
>                       [ using =, -, + ...
>               g       ok, download what I really selected to be updated
>                       and update...
>
>               note that the most important aptitude ncurse menu is 'Cancel 
> pending
>               actions' :)
>
>       or using emacs, 'à la magit'
>
>       M-x guix-status
>               u
>               U
>               ...

How would that differ from what Emacs-Guix provides?

>> For Guix developers, I think it’s reasonable to have a traditional GNU
>> build system.  After all, Guix is also a regular software package that
>> people can build from source with “./configure && make && make install”.
>
> If I could just grab guile-gnutls and  “./configure && make && make install”
> then I could compile, play, use, learn, contribute with/to guix...

David, if your distro does not provide a guile-gnutls package, you can
always install Guix via the binary installation method:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

HTH!

Ludo’.