From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
'Pjotr Prins' <pjotr.public66@thebird.nl>,
"'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'"
<bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org>
Subject: Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix)
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:53:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp42ifxu.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436378615368.30302@stowers.org>
>> Another one, which I think Ricardo has been investigating lately, would be to
>> have users manage their profiles via the Web user interface,
>> guix-web: <https://git.dthompson.us/guix-web.git>. (The video
>> <http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/misc/2015-
>> 01__GNU_Guix__The_Emacs_of_Distros.webm>
>> has a demo starting at around 23mn.)
>
> Hmm, it is not clear to me how this would play out in a multi-user
> environment. Having a web server that could alter per-user profiles
> sounds like a recipe for more confusion, rather than a solution.
>
> In any case, in my opinion, it would be a mistake to have depend on
> another tool (such as guix-web, or something similar) to implement
> functionality that could not be gained at using command-line guix.
> Don't you agree?
Some find a web interface easier to use than the command line. For
those users I suspect the convenience of using a web interface outweighs
the threat of additional confusion. Ultimately, I want both tools to be
available because users differ.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-18 20:22 Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix) Cook, Malcolm
2015-06-19 8:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 11:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-25 6:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 11:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-08 19:20 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-08 19:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 17:48 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-06-24 19:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-08 18:03 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-08 19:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2015-07-10 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-11 0:48 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-13 16:45 ` Test suite failures Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-18 3:04 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-18 15:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-11 0:54 ` Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix) Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-15 15:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-15 19:49 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-15 20:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-07-18 9:26 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-18 15:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-19 9:18 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-19 9:33 ` Andreas Enge
2015-07-20 22:37 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-21 20:23 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-21 20:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-23 22:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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