Post B0skxO2DZBGBXsDRrc by defuneste@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #B0skxGSVjXXS36SKjg by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-01T13:12:33Z
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RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@pat_dev/115609869879541234Bump! #posit binaries of spatial #rstats packages are still broken as of right now . Seems nobody has reported this to them yet.
(DIR) Post #B0skxHVNqLQlIIo8qu by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T13:15:56Z
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Update: a person from #posit saw my post on BlueSky and initiated a rebuild. Still wondering why nobody noticed or reported this earlier. The total duration was ~ 2 weeks, or maybe a bit longer even, depending on when the library update happened. Most likely nobody noticed yet as most people don't update their syslib reguraly (enough). (And yes, I didn't report it on purpose immediately as I was curious to find out what happens as I already reported the last case before that for libgit2 ~ 1.5 years ago)
(DIR) Post #B0skxIVQ7h3QOhpgY4 by defuneste@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T13:25:11Z
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@pat_dev I do not have any idea of Posit client OS distribution. Would fedora users more likely to use cran2copr or simply prefer building from source? (I am on Ubuntu and either build from source or use r2u).
(DIR) Post #B0skxJ5vvwGGDwuqSe by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T13:53:44Z
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@defuneste there are no official binaries built for Fedora I am aware of. Fedora release cycles are too fast compared to RHEl and Ubuntu. Similarly the libs aren't recent enough but also not small enough to be of interest for CI. So it's hard to find an argument building distinct binaries for it. I guess most just build from source. WRT to r2u: I am not a fan of it and don't recommend using it. I think it's the fundamental wrong approach to language binaries.
(DIR) Post #B0skxJhVgEJq6UUr20 by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T13:55:22Z
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@defuneste maybe the new manylinux binaries from Posit might do it. They might indeed have their place for niche Linux distros as they bundle the syslibs within their binary so you don't have to link dynamically against the local ones.
(DIR) Post #B0skxKFtcNpBp8aJd2 by defuneste@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T14:04:11Z
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@pat_dev do you have a post on why not r2u? (thanks for clarifying for fedora, I should distro hoppes into it to learn it more!)
(DIR) Post #B0skxLJTgYHf6XGgqm by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T14:22:26Z
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@defuneste Not (yet). I was thinking about it some time ago but then I realized that it might be a too negative one and I should rather focus on positive-minded posts boosting the projects that do things well.And it would probably cause a heated discussion with Dirk (again), which I've had enough of in the past already.
(DIR) Post #B0skxMVZF5Y4oJvrKi by defuneste@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T14:25:50Z
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@pat_dev Understands!Then I might bother you are about GUIX package manager? Did you look into it?
(DIR) Post #B0skxNOVwnV7Yjdjyi by pat_dev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-03T14:34:19Z
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@defuneste Didn't know about it until now. From a first quick look (2 mins) it looks like a similar approach of building a self-contained library building platform as #nix is doing? Haven't made my opinion on such approaches yet (in detail), so can't say much substantial about it.
(DIR) Post #B0skxO2DZBGBXsDRrc by defuneste@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T14:40:19Z
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@pat_dev yes similar to nix (I am following because some french researchers are using/developing it). @Mehrad did a nice introduction about it with direnv.
(DIR) Post #B0skxOaFWeTxFQ8cuO by Mehrad@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T20:04:09Z
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@pat_devWell, Guix started as adopting Nix but with few better features:1. Using Guile Scheme as language compared to Nix which feels like a glorified JSON with lambda functions2. Has a time-machine feature that allows pinning channels into specific commits and hence guarantee reproducibilityI use it at work in daily basis for data analysis with R. I'll soon release a follow-up blog post with specifics, but for now this is the previous post:https://mehrad.ai/posts/20251106-reproducible-r-enviroment-using-guix/@defuneste
(DIR) Post #B0skxT4Wq14zAUKrey by Mehrad@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T20:06:45Z
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@pat_devI have a working easy-to-use workflow for having Guix+Rstudio, but these days using direnv I work with Positron or Emacs whichever fits best for my projects. The details will be in my next blog post in case you are interested.Give #Guix a try, it definitely worth the time imho.@defuneste