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Re: bug#45919: [PATCH 0/8] Exporting a manifest and channels from a prof
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: bug#45919: [PATCH 0/8] Exporting a manifest and channels from a profile |
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Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:30:45 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com> skribis:
> I don't think there's much drawback to having both the auto-generated
> files and a command that generates them. That seems more discoverable -
> you might happen across the files when you poke into a profile, or you
> might notice the command while reading the docs or the help output.
Note that the ‘manifest’ file starts with a comment. This patch set
updates this comment so it mentions ‘--export-channels’.
> Glad to see this capability land any which way, this is something that
> comes up often!
Heh, good. :-)
> While we're considering putting a manifest in the profile, is this a
> good time to also bring up the idea of renaming the "manifest" file? It
> confuses more people all the time. I'd be inclined to rename it
> "profile-metadata" or "lockfile".
It’s the kind of thing that can’t really be changed, or at least not
without a looong transition period, because older ‘guix package’
commands wouldn’t recognize profiles that lack a ‘manifest’ file.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.