Subject: Re: bug#38439: No way for Retroarch users to install cores & assets via Guix

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:48:49 +0900

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> writes:

> Guix,
>
> When starting our Retroarch package, it warns: ‘Missing assets, go get
> some’.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no way to do so through Guix apart from
> manually searching for the required core(s) & assets and downloading
> them to the right location.
>
> It would be nice to be able to just run ‘guix install retroarch
> retroarch-assets-foo retroarch-core-foo’ and start playing :-)

That's now possible.  Try: 'guix shell retroarch
libretro-mupen64plus-nx libretro-slang-shaders -- retroarch' for
example.

We should package more cores.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim