From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:36:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87tv7for3z.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9rxx8ri.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0e4oy51.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSg5d-0003Bl-AN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:36:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSg5b-0001Xm-LB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:36:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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: Konrad Hinsen , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Konrad Hinsen writes: > This does open some interesting possibilities, such as experts defining > personalized system configurations which are then easy to install for > anyone. Although I am not terribly fond of the idea of typing URLs into > an installer. This should not be an issue once we have Live Guix with a graphical installer and all :) > The bigger issue is config.scm - again unrestricted Guile code, like > manifests. That's not good for publishing because we shouldn't encourage > anyone to run unrestricted code from untrusted sources. I think the most common use case here is to provide your own config.scm that you have in some git repository for instance. =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAl3EAcAACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH9eKAf/TJAt+ZQROz7gJHfiSQuR1pjCVo7J2Vd4VptnNi+n54qS7xz3jqVil7Ub vMRkVO6QtzLmjOq3BzQtzFCpb9domG35T9BMRy7o/RZKdZ+ia3dlfTbwqByH5lnE +tfa/atvlQu+wWieSGCHp74PDQHdbbU+wboEkFgiE5nUMmm2H14/xg3WXXt7/2OY iKDIrWXQ6BhbO3JwPC8GfH0LQIqfHjzUoinD4MT9que4+5A8fBgWdE8MhEOXk1Jb h39vyouzQDx7cReqEyea1qs2LW8dh5inzHQj+AUCzQ4h3HoJF4bFzsWbu6fJn2HN xyH4wEQ/t9Asw2iMyNJ/3vFrMMVVJQ== =Uz8g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--