From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: myglc2@gmail.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:39:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmhkz4x6.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fu6wh8aq.fsf@gmail.com>
myglc2@gmail.com writes:
>> One thing that’s still an open question is how we should treat Guix
>> itself in that channelized world.
>>
>> Should Guix be a “normal” channel? It’s tempting to think of it as a
>> regular channel; however, it’s definitely “special” in that it can
>> update the ‘guix’ command, maybe guix-daemon & co., locale data, etc.
>> How does that affect ‘guix channel’?
>
> ISTM this design allows channels to inject non-free &/or non-safe
> components into other user's Guix systems. Is that true?
If one user could override the daemon or the guix command *for other
users* that wouldn’t be okay. The simple channel draft would not make
this possible.
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Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-23 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-19 8:24 [RFC] A simple draft for channels Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-19 8:55 ` Jelle Licht
2018-01-19 11:30 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-19 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-19 13:56 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23 6:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23 8:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23 23:01 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-01-23 16:03 ` myglc2
2018-01-23 16:50 ` ng0
2018-01-24 5:44 ` myglc2
2018-01-24 12:33 ` ng0
2018-01-24 15:04 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-01-23 20:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-01-23 20:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 12:01 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-20 5:45 ` 宋文武
2018-01-24 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-24 17:55 ` myglc2
2018-01-24 18:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-26 17:23 ` myglc2
2018-01-26 18:53 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19 12:46 ` ng0
2018-01-27 12:10 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-19 12:04 ` [Orchestration][RFC] " Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 12:36 ` ng0
2018-03-19 18:21 ` myglc2
2018-03-19 18:31 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 20:18 ` myglc2
2018-03-19 20:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 7:02 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 10:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-20 13:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 13:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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