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3 | #+TITLE: What's left to do? |
4 | #+STARTUP: content hidestars | |
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d6af2518 | 6 | Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
11b68c90 | 7 | Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> |
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9 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
10 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
11 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
12 | ||
d6af2518 | 13 | * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] |
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15 | Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or |
16 | rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users | |
17 | would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust. | |
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19 | Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. |
20 | ||
21 | * user interface | |
3e5980de | 22 | ** add guile-ncurses interface |
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6b8875c8 | 24 | * extend <package> |
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25 | ** add ‘recommends’ field |
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27 | For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other. | |
28 | ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or | |
29 | none of the recommendations. | |
30 | ||
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31 | ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’ |
32 | ||
33 | This should specify builder code to be run when building a user | |
34 | environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would | |
35 | create a new ‘dir’. | |
36 | ||
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37 | ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs |
38 | ||
39 | #+BEGIN_SRC scheme | |
40 | (outputs '("out" "include")) | |
41 | (propagated-build-inputs | |
42 | `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1") | |
43 | ("i2" ,p2)) | |
44 | => "include") | |
45 | ("i3" ,p3))) | |
46 | #+END_SRC | |
47 | ||
971cb56d | 48 | * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] |
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50 | Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be | |
51 | dumped from the FSD: | |
52 | http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . | |
53 | We could periodically synchronize with that. | |
54 | ||
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55 | * add a guildhall build system |
56 | ||
57 | The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a | |
58 | ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall | |
59 | recipes. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * union |
62 | ||
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63 | Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor |
64 | per-package priorities, etc. | |
6b8875c8 | 65 | |
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66 | * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS |
67 | ||
68 | Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be | |
69 | run when that is defined. | |
70 | ||
6b8875c8 | 71 | * guix build utils |
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72 | ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name |
73 | ||
8c247e1c | 74 | ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]] |
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29767aae | 76 | ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild |
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77 | |
78 | See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. | |
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6b8875c8 | 80 | * distro |
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81 | ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’ |
82 | ||
83 | Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. | |
84 | In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and | |
85 | Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. | |
86 | ||
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87 | * Installer |
88 | ** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started | |
89 | See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html. | |
90 | - Force reboot upon installer failure | |
91 | - Unshare the installer process | |
92 | - Run the installer process in a separate namespace | |
93 | ** Partitioning | |
94 | *** Add RAID support | |
95 | *** Add more partitioning schemes | |
96 | The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not | |
97 | implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp". | |
98 | *** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait" | |
99 | Create a new waiting page describing what's being done: | |
100 | ||
101 | [ 20% ] | |
102 | Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ... | |
103 | ||
104 | [ 40% ] | |
105 | Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ... | |
b93d2602 | 106 | *** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning |
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107 | ** Desktop environments |
108 | *** Allow for no desktop environments | |
109 | Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new | |
110 | page. | |
111 | *** Add services selection feature | |
112 | Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed | |
113 | like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list? | |
114 | ** Locale and keymap | |
115 | *** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode) | |
116 | ** Timezone | |
117 | *** Regroup everything in one single page | |
118 | Under the form: | |
119 | (UTC + 1) Europe/Paris | |
120 | (UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo | |
121 | ... | |
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122 | ** Display issue |
123 | *** Investigate display issue described here: | |
124 | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html |