From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com
Cc: bug-guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: First time guix build
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:44:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ni82c2s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj5s7p83.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Sassmannshausen's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:49:32 +0000")
Hi Alex,
Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:
> Whilst reading the published manual on the GNU Guix website I came across the following three sentences that could maybe be improved (their all in section 3.1):
> 'Instead of referring to these directories, users have their own profile, which points to the packages that they actually want to use. That profile is normally stored in $HOME/.guix-profile, and each user has its own profile. '
> Would probably sound better and read easier if it were:
> 'Instead of referring to these directories, users each have their own profile, which points to the packages that they actually want to use. These profiles are stored within each user's own home directory, at $HOME/.guix-profile.'
Indeed.
> The nextparagraph could be rewritten as (though maybe just unnecessary rewording):
> For example, alice installs GCC 4.7.2. As a result, gcc in her profile, /home/alice/.guix-profile/bin/gcc would point to /nix/store/xxx-gcc-4.7.2/bin/gcc. Now, on the same machine, bob had already installed GCC 4.8.0. Bob's profile simply continues to point to /nix/store/xxx-gcc-4.8.0/bin/gcc; i.e. both versions of GCC coexist on the same system without any interference.
Yes, makes sense.
> Finally, what I think is a typ-o:
> …if the guix-package processed is terminated…
> should be
> …if the guix-package process is terminated…
Right.
I’ve applied these suggestions in commit 821b001.
> I also just now, when re-configuring with a different store directory, noticed that there might be a typ-o in the localstatedir param example. It currently says:
> The default values are --with-store-dir=/nix/store and --localstatedir=/nix/var.
> But I think it should read
> […] and --localstatedir=/var/nix.
No, /nix/var is really what is meant here.
> Hope this helps, let me know if it's better to provide this kind of thing in a different fashion.
The source of this document is the doc/guix.texi file in the source code
repository. It’s more convenient if you send a patch against that file
(ideally using the ‘git format-patch’ command), but it’s also helpful if
you report typos like you did.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 21:55 First time guix build Alex Sassmannshausen
2013-01-22 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-22 23:49 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2013-01-23 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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