From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2@gmail.com Subject: Re: Installation Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:41:43 -0500 Message-ID: <86bmhrunjs.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mv1c4kp7.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1wgh4hf.fsf@elephly.net> <877esfbgtx.fsf@gnu.org> <20180118120542.rymr5cwtrxogirsa@abyayala> <87bmhrgq2c.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecDG9-0002Po-MU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:41:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecDG6-0005sn-Jh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:41:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bmhrgq2c.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:11:07 +0100") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix-devel On 01/18/2018 at 16:11 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > ng0 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=E2=80=99t think that we do. There should not be failures that leav= e 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