Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)

[Matthew Jordan]

Good Day Ludovic Courtès and everyone,

> This is really a bug: ‘cow-store’ should bind mount /mnt/tmp like you
> did.  I’ll push a fix shortly.
>
> I suppose one doesn’t need swap if /tmp is backed by a real disk, too.
>
> Last, ideally, you’d get substitutes for every package during the
> installation, and thus having /tmp in RAM wouldn’t matter much.
>
> Anyway, thanks for reporting it!

No problem, you are welcome.  Although it didn't cross my mind that it
would be considered a bug.

> I’ve come to think that ‘cfdisk’ is easier than Parted’s CLI.  WDYT?
>
> Rather than listing this relatively long list of Parted commands,
> perhaps we should provide a tool akin to what Debian’s installer has,
> where it offers “standard” partitioning profiles that people can use.
> This could be implemented using the Guile bindings of GNUfdisk or
> something like that.
>
> Thoughts?

This sounds like a decent idea!  If it's CLI tool that would be helpful
in automated installs.

And speaking of automated installs, would it be possible to add
lsh/openssh and wget to the USB install image?

Would be great if there was an ISO image as well. While seemingly old
fashioned tools like Packer (https://www.packer.io/) can use them to
automate image creation. ^_^

And one more question, is there a central place I can look to
find/research guile bindings?

Sincerely,

-- 
Matthew Jordan
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