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From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: 31786@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits"
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:45:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in6ltiyo.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1r1tklq.fsf@lassieur.org>

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> Hi George,
>
> George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:54:49AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> The other aspect, from a maintenance and readability viewpoint, is that
>>>> we could quickly add up lots of explanations that we’ll have to keep
>>>> up-to-date and that may make more important information harder to find.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I'm worried about this too. It's tough to strike the correct
>>> balance.
>>
>> IMO Guix is great for hackers, maintainers and sysops. The doc is
>> appropriate for such users, well done, spare, and already voluminous.
>>
>> This footnote suggestion, and others rejected in the past, are motivated
>> by my assumption that you will want to make Guix attractive to less
>> sophisticated users.
>
> But non-hacker users can use Guix pull!  Running Guix before it is
> installed (with pre-inst-env) is described in the manual as a "Hacker
> trick".
>
>> Maybe my assumption is wrong? Maybe you want only "elite" users?
>
> Guix pull is well documented, and should be usable for non-elite users.
>
>> Or maybe you want to defer the less sophisticated users to later in the
>> development cycle?
>
> Clément

Sorry if I sounded a bit rude, it wasn't my intention.  :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-14 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11 18:01 bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits" George Clemmer
2018-06-12 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-12 18:28   ` George Clemmer
2018-06-12 20:33     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-13  0:51       ` George Clemmer
2018-06-13  6:54         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-14  1:39           ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-14 15:18             ` George Clemmer
2018-06-14 16:10               ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-14 16:45                 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-06-14 16:36               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 19:13                 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 20:30                   ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-16 16:06                     ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 22:02                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 22:24                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-19 16:47                       ` myglc2
2018-06-16  1:35                     ` George Clemmer

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