From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bill-auger Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:55:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20181022225512.1a761386@debian> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <20181022170731.13db3f3b@scratchpost.org> <20181022224729.789b8f3d@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59750) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmqn-0006oD-7C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:55:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmqj-0005ou-Un for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:55:21 -0400 Received: from pop.dreamhost.com ([64.90.62.162]:48464 helo=pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEmqj-0005oJ-NO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:55:17 -0400 Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82D480136 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:55:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian (75-138-186-142.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [75.138.186.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bill-auger@peers.community) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a34.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 033418010F for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:55:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20181022224729.789b8f3d@debian> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:47:29 -0400 bill-auger wrote: > if non-technical people are ever going > to try guixsd, then a fully graphical liveISO X desktop environment > with a mouse-centric installer will be essential i should qualify that statement as well to note that a graphical package manager would be just as essential for non-technical users - if there is not yet any graphical package manager, then there is little need for a graphical installer either, as the distro is clearly targeting only "power users" and very much excluding the largest group of potential users which are not so comfortable on the command line