From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: improve installation instructions
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:45:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736q37x1z.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877effxgt9.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation
>> section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details?
>
> Good idea.
>
>> +We recommend the use of this
>> +@uref{https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh,
>> +shell installer script} to install Guix on top of a running GNU/Linux system,
>> +thereafter called a @dfn{foreign distro}.@footnote{This section is concerned
>> +with the installation of the package manager, which can be done on top of a
>> +running GNU/Linux system. If, instead, you want to install the complete GNU
>> +operating system, @pxref{System Installation}.} The script automates the
>> +download, installation, and initial configuration of Guix. It should be run
>> +as the root user.
>
> Perhaps you could wrap this paragraph in “@quotation Note” to make it
> even more visible.
Done. Thanks for the comments!
--
Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-08 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-05 16:58 improve installation instructions Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-05 17:03 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2019-01-05 17:14 ` Kyle Meyer
2019-01-08 16:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-08 19:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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