Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects

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Никита Чураев transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> Here's how I want to use Guix and it is to increase contributor-friendliness
> of a project, so that the user can simply run a distribution-independent
> command to install all dependencies without having to hunt for them with
> `apt` and `dnf` manually.
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> Unfortunately, Guix itself is not very easy to install, and the instructions
> are full of rather technical stuff like 'systemd' and 'upstart'.
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> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
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> There should be a script like the one Haskell Stack uses:
> 
> |curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh|

Hi,

Personally I fail to see how piping an arbitrary shell command improves access
to Guix itself. This must be a recent trend, I've seen it first maybe 7 years
ago.
What do you think is bad about the Handbook? We are open to suggestions
for improvement.

> IMO supporting this as a use case could really bring popularity to GNU Guix.
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