From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Introducing ‘guix pack’
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:00:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efy0t0tv.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r320m0u5.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:42:26 +0100")
Hey :)
On Tue 14 Mar 2017 14:42, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> If we remove /var/guix/profiles, users will have to actually type
> /gnu/store/asasdfadfgsadfa-profile/bin/guile. This is not great, but I
> don’t know what else could be done. We could profile a
> /bin/guile → /gnu/store/asasdfadfgsadfa-profile/bin/guile symlink, but
> perhaps that’s risky too.
As we were discussing in the channel, maybe it's OK for these binary
installs to claim "/opt/gnu". Then we expose the profile in /opt/gnu,
so you would run Guile as /opt/gnu/bin/guile. Additionally you could
actually build against that Guile, which would be pretty neat. If the
user untars multiple guix packs, /gnu/store easily absorbs the union,
and /opt/gnu will adjoin any new profile directories/files and replace
any overwritten links.
We would have to make sure the union directory in /opt/gnu has all real
directories and only symlink files, as per the recent patch on
guix-devel.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-10 21:50 Introducing ‘guix pack’ Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-10 23:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-11 21:05 ` Chris Marusich
2017-03-12 16:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-12 23:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-13 7:44 ` Chris Marusich
2017-03-13 10:18 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-14 13:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-14 14:00 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2017-03-14 17:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 17:13 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-19 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 8:09 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-20 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-21 10:48 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-22 8:48 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-24 9:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 15:16 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-16 22:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 17:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-17 23:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 23:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 12:01 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-03-20 14:20 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-20 15:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-20 15:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
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