From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Cayetano Santos <csantosb@inventati.org>,
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Subject: Re: On the quest for a new release model
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:14:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ikrnl4r4.fsf@wolfsden.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qsjbhlg.fsf@gmail.com> (Suhail Singh's message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:47:23 -0500")
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Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:
> Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
> distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> can we strip away almost all of the packages and still have a minimal
>> bootable system? If we minimize that set of really-core packages,
>> maybe there can be one team that works on this minimal bootable OS and
>> produce stable images that are fast to update. If people want to add
>> more packages, there is always the current "fat" rolling Guix git
>> repository that you can add on top of the small base OS.
>
> I proposed something similar some weeks ago [1]. Specifically,
> splitting Guix's monolithic repository into at least two different
> channels (perhaps more). These channels would be included in
> %default-channels, however, the main Guix repository would only include
> the packages from Ring-0 and Ring-1 (taking inspiration from OpenSUSE)
> [2]:
While I explicitly do not comment on this proposal, I would like to
point out that there is more work involved than just splitting it into
separate channels and adding those into %default-channels.
While multiple channels do work well with guix pull, there are annoying
limitations when used in other places.
Also you would need some way to specify what channel commits are able to
work together version-wise.
Tomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-13 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-09 12:19 Discussion notes on releases and branches Andreas Enge
2023-02-12 21:13 ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Josselin Poiret
2023-02-12 21:34 ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-13 9:32 ` Time for RFC? (was Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)) zimoun
2023-02-13 14:07 ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 19:12 ` Leo Famulari
2023-02-13 9:22 ` Release (was " Simon Tournier
2023-02-14 10:14 ` Rust team branch " Efraim Flashner
2023-02-14 16:36 ` Rust team branch Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 20:07 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-16 10:56 ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 16:36 ` Rust team branch (was Re: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-02-14 20:08 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-15 17:49 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-03-17 15:24 ` Discussion notes on releases and branches Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-03-18 17:42 ` Leo Famulari
2024-12-13 8:37 ` On the quest for a new release model (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Cayetano Santos
2024-12-13 12:03 ` On the quest for a new release model Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-13 13:01 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 15:21 ` Greg Hogan
2024-12-13 15:52 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 16:05 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 16:28 ` Cayetano Santos
2024-12-13 17:21 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 20:34 ` Cayetano Santos
2024-12-13 22:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-13 22:27 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 23:08 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-14 1:38 ` John Kehayias via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-13 16:04 ` Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-13 17:47 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 20:14 ` Tomas Volf [this message]
2024-12-13 22:13 ` Suhail Singh
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