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[bug#50833] [PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)


From: jgart
Subject: [bug#50833] [PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:47:01 -0500

On Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:33:46 +0300 Munyoki Kilyungi <me@bonfacemunyoki.com> 
wrote:
> jgart via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
> anaandika:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> > So, I should just patch lynx then, or also other things on that list?
> >
> > btw, bower is currently available from guixrus:
> >
> > https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/tree/master/item/guixrus/packages/misc.scm#L143
> >
> > I also maintain the nix package for bower:
> >
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.05/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix#L34
> >
> 
> > I might stop maintaining the nix package since it's not as exciting work as 
> > maintaining the Guix package and I think I don't have time for that anymore 
> > ;()
> >
> A bit of yak-shaving here, but why would you want
> nix+guix on the same system?

Sometimes nix has a package that guix doesn't have and it might take a long 
time to package it for Guix properly so I just install it immediately with nix 
(think escape hatch).





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