From: myglc2@gmail.com
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:41:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bmhrunjs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmhrgq2c.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:11:07 +0100")
On 01/18/2018 at 16:11 Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> ng0 <ng0@n0.is> writes:
>
>> Do we have the ability to separate features, like --enable-experimental passed
>> to configure build Guix with certain features that might break your
>> OS?
>
> That would be too vague to be useful.
>
>> Otoh
>> we already presume that people setting up GuixSD today know enough about systems
>> to recover from failures (which is another undocumented problem/usecase with GuixSD).
>
> I don’t think that we do. There should not be failures that leave the
> system broken. If there are then these are bugs and should be reported.
I agree with Ricardo's assesment and in my experience (running
Guix/Debian and GuixSD on physical intel E3 servers for that last two
years) 'guix system reconfigure" has NEVER left my system broken.
The only times guixSD has become broken are when I physically moved the
boot drive around. Maybe this is fixed. For details see ...
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-01/msg00245.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 12:43 Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-17 14:35 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 15:47 ` Installation Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-17 19:35 ` Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-18 10:27 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 10:29 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 12:05 ` Installation ng0
2018-01-18 15:11 ` Installation Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-18 16:41 ` myglc2 [this message]
2018-01-22 4:38 ` Installation Chris Marusich
2018-01-22 8:29 ` Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-18 2:29 ` Installation George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-18 9:29 ` Drive identifiers Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 9:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 10:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 11:01 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 14:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 20:10 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 8:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 0:43 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 7:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 16:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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