[PATCH 1/2] doc: Add note for first time users on arbitrary system.

[PATCH 1/2] doc: Add note for first time users on arbitrary system.

[Hartmut Goebel]

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add note about no need for a
virtual machine.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 01363c1..fab39e5 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Efraim Flashner
+Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Efraim Flashner@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Hartmut Goebel
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -354,6 +355,12 @@ dependencies.  This is often quicker than installing from source, which
 is described in the next sections.  The only requirement is to have
 GNU@tie{}tar and Xz.
 
+Installing Guix on an arbitrary system as descibed here is absolutely
+save for your originating system. Only two directories, a service and a
+bunch of easy-to-spot users are created. All work you'll do will be done
+within this. Even for your first steps setting up a virtual machine is
+completely unnecessary.
+
 Installing goes along these lines:
 
 @enumerate
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCH 2/2] doc: Update specification for Python packages

[Hartmut Goebel]

* doc/guix.texi (Python Packages): Add rule for packages with upstream
  name starting with "py".
---
 doc/guix.texi | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index fab39e5..843f434 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -11104,7 +11104,9 @@ packages with the corresponding names.
 
 If a project already contains the word @code{python}, we drop this;
 for instance, the module python-dateutil is packaged under the names
-@code{python-dateutil} and @code{python2-dateutil}.
+@code{python-dateutil} and @code{python2-dateutil}.  If the project name
+starts with @code{py} (e.g. @code{pytz}), we keep it and prefix it as
+described above.
 
 
 @node Perl Modules
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Update specification for Python packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> * doc/guix.texi (Python Packages): Add rule for packages with upstream
>   name starting with "py".

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: Add note for first time users on arbitrary system.

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 07:05:39PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add note about no need for a
> virtual machine.
> ---
>  doc/guix.texi | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 01363c1..fab39e5 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@*
> -Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Efraim Flashner
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Efraim Flashner@*
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Hartmut Goebel
>  
>  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
>  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
> @@ -354,6 +355,12 @@ dependencies.  This is often quicker than installing from source, which
>  is described in the next sections.  The only requirement is to have
>  GNU@tie{}tar and Xz.
>  
> +Installing Guix on an arbitrary system as descibed here is absolutely
                        ^^^
                    on a foreign distro (maybe?)
> +save for your originating system. Only two directories, a service and a
    ^^^
  safe
> +bunch of easy-to-spot users are created. All work you'll do will be done
> +within this. Even for your first steps setting up a virtual machine is
> +completely unnecessary.
> +
>  Installing goes along these lines:
>  
>  @enumerate
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: Add note for first time users on arbitrary system.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add note about no need for a
> virtual machine.

I moved the paragraph one level above, to “Installation”, and rephrased
it a bit to match the intro (see below.)

Thanks for the suggestion!

Ludo’.


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@@ -336,6 +336,13 @@ 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}.
 
+@cindex foreign distro
+When installed on a running GNU/Linux system---thereafter called a
+@dfn{foreign distro}---GNU@tie{}Guix complements the available tools
+without interference.  Its data lives exclusively in two directories,
+usually @file{/gnu/store} and @file{/var/guix}; other files on your
+system, such as @file{/etc}, are left untouched.
+
 @menu
 * Binary Installation::         Getting Guix running in no time!
 * Requirements::                Software needed to build and run Guix.
@@ -1096,6 +1103,7 @@ daemons on the same machine.
 @node Application Setup
 @section Application Setup
 
+@cindex foreign distro
 When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other than GuixSD---a
 so-called @dfn{foreign distro}---a few additional steps are needed to
 get everything in place.  Here are some of them.