Re: Self-contained Guix tarball

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> Great :). I would make it a little clearer that this is
> 'bootstrapping' and hype it a little more that now there is no reason
> NOT to install Guix. Only 100Mb on your HDD.

Not sure how to do that, would you like to propose actual text?
The thing is, I want it to remain accurate and factual.

> The warning about overwriting a Guix installation should be earlier.

Done in 5dc3ce5.

> Maybe point out that if you want to move a package with dependencies
> see another part of the documentation.

What do you meaning by moving a package with dependencies?

> BTW when Nix decided to go for a meta-database they lost something. I
> know it has good reasons (performance mostly) but it took away the
> self-containedness of packages. It would be nice just to be able to
> copy/del packages and rebuild the meta information. Do we have
> something like that? 

This part is the same as Nix.  The database is here to store meta-data
about store items, notably the list of references found in a store item.
Determining this list requires scanning all of the store item’s
contents, which takes time proportional to the number/size of files it
contains, so the database can hardly be avoided.

Thanks,
Ludo’.