From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 14:39:17 -0600 Message-ID: <20191222203917.k5d7d33x7u5zkoht@thebird.nl> References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9rxx8ri.fsf@gnu.org> <87r227qxf7.fsf@gnu.org> <20191222194025.GA1685@jurong> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ij87q-0005Cd-P0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:46:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ij87p-0007Zk-DK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:46:54 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:33158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ij87p-0007Ux-4Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:46:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191222194025.GA1685@jurong> 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 08:40:25PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Could we reach out to some experienced UI designers? Is there actually > any such thing as "CLUI designers"? These things grow over time. I think with our current knowledge we could put it to the vote. Also some of the default behaviour may be up for discussion (such as using guixbuild user by default for the daemon). One way to handle it is to have a new CLUI and a guix-legacy CLI to handle the old one for the time being noting that a switch is going obsolete. A phased approach, in other words. Pj.