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bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits"
From: |
Clément Lassieur |
Subject: |
bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits" |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:10:25 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Hi George,
George Clemmer <address@hidden> writes:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:54:49AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> The other aspect, from a maintenance and readability viewpoint, is that
>>> we could quickly add up lots of explanations that we’ll have to keep
>>> up-to-date and that may make more important information harder to find.
>>
>> Yeah, I'm worried about this too. It's tough to strike the correct
>> balance.
>
> IMO Guix is great for hackers, maintainers and sysops. The doc is
> appropriate for such users, well done, spare, and already voluminous.
>
> This footnote suggestion, and others rejected in the past, are motivated
> by my assumption that you will want to make Guix attractive to less
> sophisticated users.
But non-hacker users can use Guix pull! Running Guix before it is
installed (with pre-inst-env) is described in the manual as a "Hacker
trick".
> Maybe my assumption is wrong? Maybe you want only "elite" users?
Guix pull is well documented, and should be usable for non-elite users.
> Or maybe you want to defer the less sophisticated users to later in the
> development cycle?
Clément
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/11
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ludovic Courtès, 2018/06/12
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/12
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ludovic Courtès, 2018/06/12
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/12
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ludovic Courtès, 2018/06/13
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Leo Famulari, 2018/06/13
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/14
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits",
Clément Lassieur <=
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Clément Lassieur, 2018/06/14
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ludovic Courtès, 2018/06/14
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/15
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Nils Gillmann, 2018/06/15
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/16
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/06/15
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", George Clemmer, 2018/06/15
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/06/19
- bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits", myglc2, 2018/06/19