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[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management
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Konrad Hinsen |
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[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:33:51 +0200 |
Hi Ludo,
> Cool, applied!
Great, thanks!
> It’s great news that the MOOC will be talking about reproducible
> research!
That's what it has been doing for a while. The news is that it will
contain a tutorial on using Guix. In parallel with the same task
(defining/communicating/restoring a software environment) using
a more heavyweight toolchain: Debian + debuerreotype + Docker.
> Now, it’s true that having two different profiles appears to be hard
> to grasp for newcomers, as Ricardo was saying just now on IRC.
I suspect that the whole idea of profiles (as distinct from the user
account) is not obvious. If I ever extend my tutorial to include
profiles, I would probably introduce them as persistent environments.
And since I am in criticizing mood, the whole Guix management API
suffers from bad naming. Consider "guix pull -l". What does it pull? Or
"guix package –-roll-back", which doesn't roll back a package but a
profile. Guix is following the lead of git whose command line API makes
sense only to people who have seen it grow historically.
Konrad.
bug#37443: [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/18
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- [bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, zimoun, 2019/09/19
- [bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/09/19
- [bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, zimoun, 2019/09/19
- [bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Konrad Hinsen, 2019/09/19
- [bug#37443] Listing profiles, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/19
[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Konrad Hinsen, 2019/09/19
[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/19
[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, zimoun, 2019/09/19
[bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/19