Re: use case: installing several user administrated workstations

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

On 2019-05-13 23:19, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
> Dear community:
> 
> I have noticed Guix System Distribution (I like to abreviate it GSD) is
> great for having a predictable, hackable system, which is entirely
> auditable. I like this. It is like making your own ... anything (car,
> house, clothes,etc). It gives you great power and endless possibilities
> of creativity, sharing and learning.
> 
> When I think of installing GSD on user machines that I will never see
> again (as at an installfest), I feel certain unease. It is so because I
> have had to change my desktop.scm system configuration file every time I
> want to update my whole operating system. That is a task that no end
> user will ever be able to do.
> 
> Is there a way that when I run 'sudo guix system reconfigure
> desktop.scm', the user (system admin for his machine) can take the
> current config and make a new config file (desktop1.scm) with the new
> synthax? It is, of course, impossible without a translation from what
> was intended in desktop.scm to what is the current situation when
> creating desktop1.scm.

Not to my knowledge.

Guix System is not IMHO ready for people who are not interested in 
learning enough guile to write/correct/adapt a config.scm.

We/someone have yet to make gui tools to handle the reconfiguring of the 
system easier for non-tech users.

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Cheers
Swedebugia