From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: 31786@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits"
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:10:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1r1tklq.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0wttn0v.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi George,
George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:54:49AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> The other aspect, from a maintenance and readability viewpoint, is that
>>> we could quickly add up lots of explanations that we’ll have to keep
>>> up-to-date and that may make more important information harder to find.
>>
>> Yeah, I'm worried about this too. It's tough to strike the correct
>> balance.
>
> IMO Guix is great for hackers, maintainers and sysops. The doc is
> appropriate for such users, well done, spare, and already voluminous.
>
> This footnote suggestion, and others rejected in the past, are motivated
> by my assumption that you will want to make Guix attractive to less
> sophisticated users.
But non-hacker users can use Guix pull! Running Guix before it is
installed (with pre-inst-env) is described in the manual as a "Hacker
trick".
> Maybe my assumption is wrong? Maybe you want only "elite" users?
Guix pull is well documented, and should be usable for non-elite users.
> Or maybe you want to defer the less sophisticated users to later in the
> development cycle?
Clément
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-14 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 18:01 bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits" George Clemmer
2018-06-12 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-12 18:28 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-12 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-13 0:51 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-13 6:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-14 1:39 ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-14 15:18 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-14 16:10 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-06-14 16:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-14 16:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 19:13 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 20:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-16 16:06 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 22:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 22:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-19 16:47 ` myglc2
2018-06-16 1:35 ` George Clemmer
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