From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Matt <matt@excalamus.com>
Cc: "Christian Miller" <christian.miller@dadoes.de>,
"guix-devel" <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:20:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0h5ray4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18d48373140.10c55a4722276191.1969374822318990762@excalamus.com> (matt@excalamus.com's message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:59:53 +0100")
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the follow-up.
Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:
[...]
> #+begin_src diff
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 4af830aed7..16349d4ec1 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -732,14 +732,16 @@ ready to use it.
>
> @cindex installing Guix from binaries
> @cindex installer script
> -This section describes how to install Guix on an arbitrary system from a
> -self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its
> -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.
> +This section describes how to install Guix from archived binaries. Such
> +installations are often quicker than building from source, which is
> +described in the next sections. Binary installations require a Linux or
> +Hurd-based system with GNU@tie{}tar and Xz.
Like Josselin, I prefer to keep the mention that the tarball archive
includes the transitive dependencies of Guix (it's explicit; "archived
binaries" is a bit vague to my taste).
As for the Linux or Hurd-based system, that seems like a good idea to
make things explicit.
I've pushed your adjusted suggestions with commit ec9c8b0c1a.
Thank you!
--
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-21 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-14 15:01 Feedback of the GNU Guix manual Christian Miller
2024-01-15 17:52 ` Matt
2024-01-15 22:05 ` Christian Miller
2024-01-18 19:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-19 21:01 ` Matt
2024-01-26 23:59 ` Matt
2024-02-18 12:35 ` Matt
2024-02-18 13:55 ` Josselin Poiret
2024-02-21 18:27 ` Matt
2024-02-21 17:20 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2024-02-21 18:36 ` Matt
2024-02-23 2:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-23 18:37 ` Matt
2024-03-02 13:34 ` Matt
2024-03-06 17:15 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-06 19:42 ` Matt
2024-03-06 20:52 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation Suhail Singh
2024-03-06 21:18 ` Suhail Singh
2024-03-07 17:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-10 11:09 ` doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation) Matt
2024-03-10 20:42 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-03-10 23:21 ` Suhail Singh
2024-03-11 1:58 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-03-11 4:27 ` John Kehayias
2024-03-11 19:15 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-03-11 15:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-16 10:47 ` Matt
2024-03-16 14:05 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-17 17:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-24 9:27 ` [bug#69977] [PATCH] doc: doc-Simplify installation instructions (was Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)) Matt
2024-03-24 9:32 ` [bug#69976] " Matt
[not found] ` <87edbitv7l.fsf@gmail.com>
2024-04-07 8:30 ` bug#69977: " pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-10 2:57 ` [bug#69977] " Maxim Cournoyer
2024-03-25 19:26 ` [bug#69977] [PATCH] doc: doc-Simplify installation instructions pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-06 8:06 ` Matt
2024-03-06 21:29 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) Vagrant Cascadian
2024-04-10 14:05 ` Fix grammar and markup (was " Matt
2024-04-11 12:59 ` Christian Miller
2024-04-12 14:41 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-12 19:18 ` Matt
2024-04-13 12:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-14 7:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-19 14:09 ` Creating a documentation team? Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-19 15:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-04-19 17:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-20 8:33 ` Matt
2024-05-01 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 9:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-05-07 17:57 ` [bug#70823] [PATCH] " Matt
2024-05-11 13:03 ` bug#70823: " pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-12 20:16 ` Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-13 8:22 ` Matt
2024-04-13 11:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-14 14:50 ` Matt
2024-04-15 12:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-15 18:39 ` Matt
2024-04-16 6:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-18 17:15 ` Matt
2024-04-19 20:56 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-20 8:36 ` Matt
2024-04-17 18:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-04-22 18:25 ` [PATCH] Fix typo (Re: " Matt
2024-04-22 22:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-05-07 19:41 ` [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was " Matt
2024-05-07 20:41 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-05-10 9:57 ` Matt
2024-05-11 8:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-05-26 19:47 ` Matt
2024-08-09 11:03 ` (No) new profiles section in the manual (was Re: [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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