From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: mekeor@posteo.de
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Wrap %default-guix-channel inside channel-with-substitutes-available by default?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:50:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <712a7bd9bac53b39f104ab302fba1783030e22f0.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eecktocz.fsf@posteo.de
I think the potential to confuse new users with this enabled by default
is higher than without it. Assume that Alice just sent a bug report to
Guix, that has been closed or has otherwise been made aware of some bug
affecting a software she uses, for which a fix has been pushed.
Naturally, she's going to run `guix pull' to test it out, and… not see
any difference to the system she currently had.
I think we do have the obligation to clearly document channels-with-
substitutes-available and make it so that this particular piece of
documentation can easily be found by everyone who is potentially
affected by slow-downs. Perhaps we might even want to include an
option in the installer to set up /etc/guix/channels.scm to only use
channels with available substitutes. But using it as a default without
communicating this fact to the users would be a poor idea in my
opinion.
Regards,
Leo
next reply other threads:[~2021-06-29 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-29 21:50 Leo Prikler [this message]
2021-06-30 8:11 ` Wrap %default-guix-channel inside channel-with-substitutes-available by default? Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-30 8:25 ` Leo Prikler
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2021-06-29 20:12 Mekeor Melire
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