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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: doron.behar@gmail.com
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trying to contribute packages: ./pre-inst-env doesn't work
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:04:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7fn7o8c.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190515144918.o524s4llrdvu7bcy@NUC.doronbehar.com>


Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:46:30PM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
>> > I ran the guix-daemon command:
>> >
>> > sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
>> >
>>
>> This should only be needed if you don't run it from a service manager.
>> Changes to the daemon are rare, and most of the times you should be
>> able to use the old daemon. But this should not cause a problem either.
>
> This what the docs say.

The Contributing section only says that you *can* run all of the tools
even before installation.  It’s not wrong and in cases when you *don’t*
have a daemon running at all it is the right thing to do, but I agree
that in the more common case where you already *have* Guix it is
probably more confusing.

> There's so much room for improvements...

Do you have a constructive suggestion for improving this section of the
manual?

--
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-15 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15  8:06 Trying to contribute packages: ./pre-inst-env doesn't work Doron Behar
2019-05-15  8:46 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-05-15  9:46   ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15 10:22     ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15 10:46       ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-05-15 14:49         ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15 15:04           ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-05-15 16:10             ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15 10:41     ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-05-15 14:31       ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15 16:33     ` Amirouche
2019-05-15 16:37       ` Amirouche
2019-05-15 21:26     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-05-16  9:30       ` Doron Behar
2019-05-15  9:08 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-15 10:06   ` Doron Behar

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