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GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released

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Re: GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released

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Post by serhart »

tacolizard wrote: post #21
serhart wrote: post #7

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Not true. You can write your own packages in the same high level interface. Including the mainline Linux kernel and broadcom drivers. I have GuixSd running on my 2013 MBP

can you tell me how you got that running in some more detail? I also have a 2013 MBP and would like to try out GuixSD

Here is a gist of the relevant packages and configs I have for my MBP.

https://gist.github.com/steve-ayerhart/81c9dfc773472e08002cd...

Re: GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released

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Post by xfer »

rufugee wrote: post #48
xfer wrote: post #35

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For me, the problem isn't so much with the nix language(it's very similar to haskell), but the lack of discoverability for docs of library. The manual is mostly incomplete and i often have to look at sources. My most favourite thing is that i can just override the packages to compile and install a new version/extra configure flags of a package that's not yet upstream.

Interesting... I've found the manuals to be ok so far. Can you share what you've had problems finding?

Well, a lot of common functions like fetch* , write*, makeWrapper that are used in packages are undocumented. I usually dig into source files using nix repl to find the location.
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