Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the follow-up.

Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

[...]

> #+begin_src diff
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 4af830aed7..16349d4ec1 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -732,14 +732,16 @@ ready to use it.
>
>  @cindex installing Guix from binaries
>  @cindex installer script
> -This section describes how to install Guix on an arbitrary system from a
> -self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its
> -dependencies.
>
>  This is often quicker than installing from source, which
> -is described in the next sections.  The only requirement is to have
> -GNU@tie{}tar and Xz.
> +This section describes how to install Guix from archived binaries.  Such
> +installations are often quicker than building from source, which is
> +described in the next sections.  Binary installations require a Linux or
> +Hurd-based system with GNU@tie{}tar and Xz.

Like Josselin, I prefer to keep the mention that the tarball archive
includes the transitive dependencies of Guix (it's explicit; "archived
binaries" is a bit vague to my taste).

As for the Linux or Hurd-based system, that seems like a good idea to
make things explicit.

I've pushed your adjusted suggestions with commit ec9c8b0c1a.

Thank you!

-- 
Maxim