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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: improve installation instructions
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:14:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pntbuiv2.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1jjrqgj.fsf@mdc-berlin.de>

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hey,
>
> I just installed Guix as a package manager on an aarch64 box.  The
> manual makes it a little difficult to perform all these steps, because
> the commands cannot be easily copied.  We do have the shell script, but
> the manual mentions it only in passing – as a user I skipped over the
> introduction and went straight to step 1, right past the script.

I've installed Guix on a foreign distro a few times and didn't realize
that that script existed, so I must have skipped past it each time.

> What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation
> section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details?

Looks good.  I think it would certainly help hasty readers like me.

Thanks.

-- 
Kyle

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-05 17:14 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 [this message]
2019-01-08 16:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-08 19:45   ` Ricardo Wurmus

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