Re: Warnings `_IOFBF' is deprecated. Use the symbol 'block instead.

[Hans Åberg]

> On 13 Jul 2018, at 16:44, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>>> On 13 Jul 2018, at 10:13, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The plan is for Guix to require Guile >= 2.2 sometime soon though,
>>> so at that point we can move to the new APIs.
>> 
>> A bug that may or may not be carried over to Guix: I could not install
>> Nix on MacOS 10.13, and I think it may be due to the sudo timeout set
>> to zero, causing non-terminating confirmations. So the script may do
>> more root calls than explicitly asked for, a potential security
>> loophole.
> 
> We’ve changed topics, right?  :-)

Right. :-)

> I don’t know what Nix is doing.  Guix works only on systems running the
> kernel Linux or the GNU Hurd, anyway.

It is only a problem if you have an installer for whatever system. The 
suggestion is to test the installation with sudo timeout set to 0.