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From: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:52:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1q2eb5w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh4qpwms.fsf@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi George,
>
> George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> ISTM we can improve this situation as follows:
>>
>> 1) agree on a canonical term to use for the 4 types of profiles
>
> I think you mentioned only two types of “profiles”: one is profiles
> created by ‘guix package’ or ‘guix environment’ or ‘guix system’ (they
> are all the same kind of “profile”), and the other one is execution
> profile, which has nothing to do with that.
>
> So to me it seems that “profile” is in fact used fairly consistently,
> isn’t it?

Yes ... but ... the use of these profiles produces subtly different
"side-effects". Package operations cause changes in the user's "default"
profile that are immediately "used" in the user environment.  However
'guix package -p foo' does not cause foo to be "used".  'guix
environment --ad-hoc' causes the environment profile to be "added" to
the user's environment, but --pure substitutes it for both system and
"default" profiles IIUC.  IMO these could be better explained and more
easily referenced by users if we develop a structured nomenclature to
distinquish between these.

> However…
>
>> 3) add a top level discussion of profiles
>
> … we surely need this.  Someone we should clearly define “profile”
> somewhere upfront.  Perhaps we also need a glossary.

Agreed

      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 23:40 [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard? George Clemmer
2018-07-10  8:54 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-11  3:21   ` George Clemmer
2018-07-11  8:06     ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-10 22:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-11  2:52   ` George Clemmer [this message]

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