From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release imminent!
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:14:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87622ov8l2.fsf@karetnikov.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3rdid8m.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "(unknown date)")
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> ‘guix-build’ is for packagers, when you want to build something without
> actually adding it to your profile, whereas ‘guix-package -i’ is for
> when you want to add something to your profile.
> Do you think this should be clarified somehow?
Yes. Could you add something to the "Invoking guix-build" section?
For example:
The guix-build command builds packages or derivations and their
dependencies, and prints the resulting store paths. Note that it doesn't
add anything to the user's profile. So it is mainly useful for
distribution developers.
Nikita
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-23 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-12 16:29 Release imminent! Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-13 12:15 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-13 13:16 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-13 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-13 16:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-13 17:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-15 21:18 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-16 0:15 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-16 11:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-23 4:14 ` Nikita Karetnikov [this message]
2013-01-23 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-18 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
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