TODO

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   3 #+TITLE: What's left to do?
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   7 Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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  13 * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
  14
  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.
  18
  19 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
  20
  21 * user interface
  22 ** add guile-ncurses interface
  23
  24 * extend <package>
  25 ** add ‘recommends’ field
  26
  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
  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
  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
  48 * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
  49
  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
  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
  61 * union
  62
  63 Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
  64 per-package priorities, etc.
  65
  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
  71 * guix build utils
  72 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
  73
  74 ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
  75
  76 ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
  77
  78 See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
  79
  80 * distro
  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
  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 ...
 106 *** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning
 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 ...
 122 ** Display issue
 123 *** Investigate display issue described here:
 124 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html