From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Installation Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:11:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87bmhrgq2c.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87mv1c4kp7.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1wgh4hf.fsf@elephly.net> <877esfbgtx.fsf@gnu.org> <20180118120542.rymr5cwtrxogirsa@abyayala> 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]:56684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBqs-0006si-6K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:11:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBqp-0006Ni-Go for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:11:38 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21079) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBqp-0006NP-B8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:11:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <20180118120542.rymr5cwtrxogirsa@abyayala> 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: ng0 Cc: Guix-devel ng0 writes: > Do we have the ability to separate features, like --enable-experimental p= assed > 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 w= ith GuixSD). I don=E2=80=99t 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. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net