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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Do we really need our own installer?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:26:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgl6rerj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a7b0563-806c-fb95-f110-16ab42e2bff7@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:05:37 +0200")

Hi Hartmut,

I think your arguments hold, but it’s just one side of the story.

The other side of the story is that having our own installer, while
being an additional burden, also means we can adapt it more easily and
offer better integration—for instance, the fact that it knows about
‘operating-system’ declarations and services means that it could perform
sanity checks, offer users to “browse” their OS declaration, and so on.

And last but not least: the installer exists now, which makes the
question kinda moot IMO.  :-)

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-19 16:05 Do we really need our own installer? Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-21 14:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-22 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-09-25  9:56   ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-25 14:35     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-04 10:08       ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-04 15:09       ` GuixSD on PXE (was: Do we really need our own installer?) Adonay Felipe Nogueira

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