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<Guest9513>a question occured to me while reading throught the guix reference manual and I wasn't sure whether or not I could do this, but I wanted to know if it was possible to name or title any of my guix system generations?
<ieure>Guest9513, It is not.
<Guest9513>ieure, Thats a shame, but thank you for answering in a timely manner.
<vhns>It seems this bug still holds true: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75450 .
<vhns>I just reproduced it myself
<sneek>Welcome back ekaitz :D
<ekaitz>hi sneek
<ekaitz>sneek: botsnack
<sneek>:)
<ekaitz>hi all
<Rutherther>where is the source for sneek?
<ekaitz>Rutherther: i think we use bobot++
<ekaitz>and I believe the specific code was in some of the guix-maintenance or so projects, or that's only the archiver?
<Rutherther>I was mostly curious what makes it welcome you :D
<gabber>Rutherther: i guess feeding it snacks regularly makes it more friendly
<csantosb>This: https://unknownlamer.org/code/bobot.html
<ekaitz>Rutherther: the bot loves me, I know you are jelous but it is what it is...
<Rutherther>guess I am going to be jealous until end of my life
<ekaitz>:)
<ColdSideOfPillow>Weird, my ~/.bash_profile doesn't seem to get sourced?
<Rutherther>how are you logging in and what is your shell in /etc/passwd?
<ColdSideOfPillow>Rutherther: My shell is bash and I'm logging in with GDM.
<ColdSideOfPillow>I've set some environment variables with `home-bash-service-type`, and they don't seem to apply.
<ColdSideOfPillow>They get appended to my bash profile
<ColdSideOfPillow>but `echo` shows that they haven't been applied.
<Rutherther>I think gdm doesn't run a login shell (anymore). But I am not completely sure
<ColdSideOfPillow>Rutherther: thanks, turns out this is correct.
<cow_2001>why can't guix shell --profile work with --emulate-fhs?
<futurile>cow_2001: total guess, but --emulate-fhs requires --container, and I'm guessing you're not sharing the the right directorys for the profile part to work
<futurile>has anyone seen nckx recently?
<cow_2001>futurile-afk: when i use --container and --profile, i cannot use --emulate-fhs
<andreas-e>futurile: no
<Rutherther>cow_2001: correct. emulate fhs adds glibc package and you cannot use --profile with other packages specified
<bartleby>Hey does anyone know if the default x86_64 linux image of guix system contains a legacy bootloader? I have dug through the files and have only find efi files. I did this because I am working with a legacy only machine.
<identity>bartleby: pretty sure you should be able to boot it through BIOS if that is what you are asking
<Kolev>Sigh. Nginx is hard. See topic "Radicale" on help-guix.
<bartleby>identity: I just end up getting a blinking cursor when ever I select the usb as a boot medium. Does the installer need internet connection from the very beginning? That is the only other thing I could think of as an issue, other than my old computer just being strange.
<cow_2001>Rutherther: oh, i see. what if i add it to the profile?
<Rutherther>cow_2001: nothing
<cow_2001>alas :|
<vhns>Would it be considered a bug if a record-type accepts exclusively (list ...) and not '( ...)?
<Rutherther>vhns: it's the same thing though
<vhns>Yeah, it *should* be the same thing
<vhns>Maybe I am being stupid, I'll test it once more
<vhns>Rutherther: I am able to reproduce it, (outputs ...) under (sway-configuration ...) exclusively accepts (list ...) and not '( ...)
<Rutherther>vhns: are you sure you're passing it sway-output objects and not symbols called sway-output? You would need unquoting for that... so you cannot do it with ', only with `
<vhns>hmm
<vhns>one sec
<vhns>Rutherther: Ok, this will sound like too obvious of a Guile question, but I'd appreciate enlightenment: Why does this work https://0x0.st/87vm.scm while this doesn't https://0x0.st/87va.scm
<vhns>it is exactly as you said, but I can't understand why
<Rutherther>because the second is like doing (list '(service home-sway-service-type ...)). You're quoting it. To be equivalent to the first one it would have to be `(,(service home-sway-service-type ...))
<vhns>hmmm
<vhns>is there something I could like print to demonstrate/understand it better?
<vhns>like printing stuff in option a would return x and printing stuff with b y
<Rutherther>vhns: sure you can just print the array and you will see the difference
<vhns>Ok, thanks
<csantosb>Just noticed the badge section here:
<csantosb> https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/git-repo-go/