From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Self-contained Guix tarball Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:23:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2x9b061.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150410084651.GA23353@thebird.nl> <873848p5kd.fsf@gnu.org> <20150410131420.GB24509@thebird.nl> <87a8ydt8k8.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <871tjlxen6.fsf@gnu.org> <20150416053355.GD21015@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjaDV-0001D8-BK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:23:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjaDS-00009r-5G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:23:57 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjaDS-00009n-2A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:23:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150416053355.GD21015@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:33:55 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins skribis: > Great :). I would make it a little clearer that this is > 'bootstrapping' and hype it a little more that now there is no reason > NOT to install Guix. Only 100Mb on your HDD. Not sure how to do that, would you like to propose actual text? The thing is, I want it to remain accurate and factual. > The warning about overwriting a Guix installation should be earlier. Done in 5dc3ce5. > Maybe point out that if you want to move a package with dependencies > see another part of the documentation. What do you meaning by moving a package with dependencies? > BTW when Nix decided to go for a meta-database they lost something. I > know it has good reasons (performance mostly) but it took away the > self-containedness of packages. It would be nice just to be able to > copy/del packages and rebuild the meta information. Do we have > something like that?=20 This part is the same as Nix. The database is here to store meta-data about store items, notably the list of references found in a store item. Determining this list requires scanning all of the store item=E2=80=99s contents, which takes time proportional to the number/size of files it contains, so the database can hardly be avoided. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.