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<youlysses>civodul: Is it going to stay that way? Midwest US, specifically St.Louis, Mo, has been getting about half the week summer-weather, half the week heavy-rain, the past 2 or-so weeks. :-P

<civodul>heh

<civodul>it was ironic

<civodul>well, i did spend time outside, but it was mostly rainy

<Steap>youlysses: sounds familiar :)

<youlysses>Steap: :-)

<CaptainLex>Hello guiks!

<civodul>hey!

<Steap>civodul: hey!

<Steap>civodul: I'm registered as a mentor on melange

<civodul>ok, i'll email Giuseppe then

<Steap>I mean, I got accepted by whoever is in charge of GNU on melange

<Steap>I think I might have to comment on Chris' proposal

<Steap>or maybe not :D

<civodul>heh, who knows :-)

<civodul>so much paperwork to siphon Google's bucks

<Steap>hahaha

<Steap>Would be easy for you to get a free vacation to Ireland this summer, though ;)

<civodul>heh, i have other plans ;-)

<civodul>did you run "guix package --upgrade" on your profile?

<civodul>(assuming you have a profile with a non-empty set of packages installed ;-))

<Steap>me ?

<civodul>yes, or anyone else :-)

<mark_weaver>civodul: why do you ask? (hi! :)

<civodul>hey mark_weaver!

<civodul>because it's a good stress test

<civodul>it worked for me

<mark_weaver>Yes, I do that periodically. I also made an attempt to add every existing package to my profile.

<civodul>ah, good :-)

<mark_weaver>though the last time I tried, I seem to recall that some things failed, so I probably don't really have everything in there.

<mark_weaver>ah, I see we have "guix --help" now. excellent :)

<civodul>yes, i thought it'd be better to have before the release :-)

<mark_weaver>I think that 'show-guix-usage' should advertise 'guix --help'

<mark_weaver>anyway, things in guix are coming along very nicely! :)

<civodul>:-)

<civodul>re show-guix-usage, right

<mark_weaver>I'll soon make another attempt to look for packages that aren't in my profile, and build them as a test.

<mark_weaver>(my last global upgrade was shortly after core-updates was merged)

<civodul>yeah the core-updates merge was the big thing

<mark_weaver>civodul: in the NEWS entry on --upgrade, you might want to mention that it needn't upgrade *all* packages in a profile. it can also upgrade selected packages.

<mark_weaver>(sorry I can't help more concretely right now; I'm swamped with some other tasks outside of Guile/Guix)

<civodul>mark_weaver: good point!

<Steap>Have you guys heard about the new packaging system currently being developed by Ubuntu ?

<civodul>nope

<civodul>any links?

<Steap>Only on Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2Nzg

<Steap>Was reading an article about that on LinuxFR

<Steap>some guy in the comments stated that Ubuntu was thinking of using an already existing system, such as Nix

<civodul>"each package would install to its own directory, the entire package format would be purely declarative,"

<civodul>rings a bell :-)

<Steap>yeah :)

<Steap>The question is "would it duplicate libraries or not ?"

<civodul>heh, fun

<Steap>Would be quite crazy to see people using Nix on an Ubuntu phone :D

<civodul>well, the package management tool is mostly invisible

<civodul>so that's not so unrealistic, i think

<civodul>this time it could be judged solely on its economic value ;-)

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