From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:14:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9rxx8ri.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0e4oy51.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSfk6-0004bx-8C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:14:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSfk5-00007m-3p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:14:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d0e4oy51.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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" To: Pierre Neidhardt , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: > By the way, the same should be possible from the installer: > > - Specify which channels you want to use. > - Specify which config.scm you want to use. Indeed, the config.scm > might rely on channels. > > This way, the Guix installation process would boil down to the above 2 > items, that is to say... 1 minute of the user time! Great, no? This does open some interesting possibilities, such as experts defining personalized system configurations which are then easy to install for anyone. Although I am not terribly fond of the idea of typing URLs into an installer. The bigger issue is config.scm - again unrestricted Guile code, like manifests. That's not good for publishing because we shouldn't encourage anyone to run unrestricted code from untrusted sources. Cheers, Konrad.