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<hugohugo>When to use inherit or package/inherit? The manual only mentions inherit, and inherit is 10x more common than package/inherit (3000 vs 300). But from the documentation it seems that package/inherit would be more useful, as that copies over transformations and grafts (if I understand correctly), and I would (perhaps naively?) think propagating those is usually what you want, right?

<Parra>Hello guys, I have managed to build Guix in a cross-platform way on Docker and produce binary releases with cache. I will be producing versions regularly in order to be up to date. If you are interested you can use the docker image or download the binary tarballs or cache:

<Parra> https://github.com/metacall/guix

<Parra> https://github.com/metacall/guix/releases/tag/v20260115

<Parra> https://github.com/metacall/guix/actions/runs/21015165237

<csantosb>Nice, thank you !

<csantosb>We then have images for github, gitlab (https://gitlab.com/debdistutils/guix/container) and sr.ht

<civodul`>Hello Guix!

<identity>hello civodul`

<PotentialUser-55>Hello, is there any simple guide on how to do disk encryption without having to enter the passwords twice

<identity>PotentialUser-55: if «patches welcome» is a simple guide, then yes

<identity>in other words, no

<look>PotentialUser-55: first ddg search result for me: https://merrick.luois.me/posts/guix-avoid-entering-luks-passphrase-twice

<look>seems simple enough

<look>no idea if it works tho

<csantosb>gabber: Hi, I just discovered https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/milestone/46868, thank you !

<csantosb>What about keeping there only what's left (this is what a milestone is for) ? Otherwise, the list will be endless.

<csantosb>Then, keep in a dedicated wiki page everything we already have, which is a lot.

<csantosb>Another idea: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/search/?query=eda

<csantosb>as an alternative to the wiki

<csantosb>sneek: later tell gabber, please see above my comments about the eda milestone

<sneek>Okay.

<csantosb>Anyone knows where is the repo for https://packages.guix.gnu.org ? Issues still point to issues.guix.gnu.org.

<fanquake> https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-packages-website ?

<csantosb>Correct, thank you.

<gabber>is there a specifically guix-y mastodon instance i can sign up on (to promote guix related hacking stuff)

<sneek>Welcome back gabber, you have 1 message!

<sneek>gabber, csantosb says: please see above my comments about the eda milestone

<gabber>csantosb: WDYM "only what's left" because i added some already-finished PRs

<csantosb>gabber: Not only Guix, byt maybe https://fosstodon.org

<csantosb>I mean, keeping the milestone for not yet completed packages

<csantosb>Nextpnr is already ready to use, so its place is somewhere else, not in a milestone

<gabber>csantosb: sure!

<gabber>i only added klayout and magic, because this was done in/for the same F-Si initiative

<gabber>but i agree with you

<gabber>and i like the idea about the wiki

<csantosb>Including "EDA" in the description also works with packages.guix.gnu.org, as an alternative to the wiki

<gabber>maybe there we could use the wiki approach to give (potential) users more insights, e.g. group the packages by use-case, by scenario, etc

<gabber>wait a second, i think i have to log out and back in again (and i don't want to miss what you're saying)

<sneek>gabber: wb!

<gabber>sneek: botsnack

<sneek>:)

<gabber>i think i'd need an invite for fosstodon...

<elevenkb>hello, we build emacs-minimal with the -g flag. I presume that since gnu-build-system strips binaries by default we end up without debugging symbols in the final output. Is there any way to get them back without rebuilding?

<csantosb>gabber: if understood that "if you wish to join, contact us for an invite." in fosstodon.org

<gabber>on fosstodon.org/explore there's "So you will need to know someone on the server in order to get an account"

<gabber>do you know how that "contact us" should happen? (which) email?

<identity>elevenkb: pretty sure --with-debug-info is the only way

<elevenkb>identity: Alright, but then I wonder why we build with -g at all?

<identity>elevenkb: trying to --with-debug-info would not work without -g, would it?

<elevenkb>actually, I think I know... --with-debug-info just prevents stripping the binaries, it doesn't make sure that the binary has debug info in the first place.

<identity>right

<ieure>Okay, trying to figure out why redshift has been broken for like a year on my systems...

<ieure>The issue is that it can't talk to geoclue. I already allowlisted it, but it's still not working.

<ieure>When I try running redshift manually, /var/log/dbus-daemon.log shows "Rejected send messages, 2 matched rules"

<ieure>Man I do not like dbus one bit

<FuncProgLinux>ieure: I've been fighting with dbus as well with the xapps-xdg-desktop-portal :/

<civodul>yelninei, janneke: hey! you should give youpi an update on Guix + Hurd 👉 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_software_bootstrapping/

<janneke>civodul: yeah, that would be nice

<old>Is there a reason why guile 3.0.11 is not yet available?

<Nessah>Good evening, Guix ~w~

<Nessah>old: guile 3.0.11 is a world rebuild, might come down the line after guix 1.5.0 is finalized

<Rutherther>just adding guile 3.0.11 is not a world rebuild

<Nessah>I see. So is it a guile problem atm?

<Rutherther> https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/5360 guile 3.0.11 has been merged to next-master due to the hard freeze

<Rutherther>no, there is no problem

<Nessah>alrighty

<gabber>i get "/gnu/store/pri326pgp9cb2q3psiz0h0fi00pzd1nd-gcc-cross-aarch64-linux-gnu-14.3.0/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-g++" is not able to compile a simple test program. i am on next-master. is this normal for a package with the cmake-build-system?

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