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On 11/06/2017 at 17:16 Leo Famulari writes:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:12:11PM -0500, myglc2 wrote:
[...]
Guix config errors are reported as raw scheme errors which are not
user-friendly, except, perhaps, to guile users ;-) Could we improve
this
situation by adding config troubleshooting guidance to the doc?
Yes, we do try to add helpful error messages, although obviously there
is a lot more work to be done.
I didn't mean this point critically. Rather as a statement of fact.
When
I said ...
Could we improve this situation by adding config troubleshooting
guidance to the doc?
... I was thinking something like ...
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Troubleshooting your config file:
If you get an error like:
ice-9/boot-9.scm:[...] no code for module (gnu packages <package name>)
You have either specified a package name that does not exist, or your
(use-package-modules <package module names>) does not contain the name
of a package module that contains the definition of <package name>.
You can determine which, if any, module contains a package definition
by
yada yada yada
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... thinking that then there would be a search hit in the doc for 'no
code for module' which might enable some users to understand what they
are doing wrong.
WDYT? - George
0001-Catch-use-modules-errors-in-configuration.patch