Re: Maybe I made a mistake?

[oury . dustin]

I'm aware that binaries packaged for Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu 
don't work. However, not being a coder or good with reading or writing 
scheme code, I'm having to work around a few of these issues.

Regarding documentation, I feel as if the manual expects a certain 
familiarity with writing scheme code, and there isn't a lot of 
documentation for diagnosing little problems like there is with Debian 
and Ubuntu. I guess that comes down to how widespread those distros are 
in the GNU/Linux community.

On 08.06.2019 10:12, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Le 8 juin 2019 09:18:39 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> 
> a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Some simple
> > > packaged software that work on those distros  like Debian don't work
> > > with Guix System […]
> >
> > Do you mean binaries that were packaged for Debian won’t work 
> > unchanged
> > on Guix System?  This is expected as Guix does not provide libraries
> > and
> > the loader at the location where a Debian binary would expect them.
> >
> > You would need to package the software for Guix to use it there.
>
> Packaging software is not as hard as you think it is, but if you lack
> the time to learn, you can still add your sohtware to that list:
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Wishlist
>
> It's not guaranteed that someone will work on it, as we are all 
> volunteers.
>
> > > and I also find the documentation to be really hard
> > > for the non-tech savvy like me to understand. I'm confused when I
> > > should mess with my configuration file or when to do things manually,
> > > like adding a supplementary group for my primary account.
> >
> > All of this should be done via the configuration file as the system is
> > mostly stateless, i.e. when you reboot your system is essentially set
> > up
> > from scratch using the files that were generated when you last ran
> > “guix
> > system reconfigure”.
> >
> > > I really want to like Guix, but for now I might have to switch to
> > > something easier until the documentation gets fleshed out and more
> > > packages that aren't in yet are added to avoid frustration.
> >
> > Can you point to specific problems you have with the documentation?
> >
> > --
> > Ricardo