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[PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)

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From: jgart <jgart <at> dismail.de>
To: Munyoki Kilyungi <me <at> bonfacemunyoki.com>
Cc: 50833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ludo <at> gnu.org, iskarian <at> mgsn.dev, maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com
Subject: [bug#50833] [PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:47:01 -0500

On Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:33:46 +0300 Munyoki Kilyungi <me <at> bonfacemunyoki.com> wrote:
> jgart via Guix-patches via <guix-patches <at> gnu.org>
> anaandika:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> > So, I should just patch lynx then, or also other things on that list?
> >
> > btw, bower is currently available from guixrus:
> >
> > https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/tree/master/item/guixrus/packages/misc.scm#L143
> >
> > I also maintain the nix package for bower:
> >
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.05/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix#L34
> >
> 
> > I might stop maintaining the nix package since it's not as exciting work as maintaining the Guix package and I think I don't have time for that anymore ;()
> >
> A bit of yak-shaving here, but why would you want
> nix+guix on the same system?

Sometimes nix has a package that guix doesn't have and it might take a long time to package it for Guix properly so I just install it immediately with nix (think escape hatch).

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