From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:11:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d2454ec-c878-0e30-fa06-5fd00f017560@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170907124306.yy7seidv66ajlkka@abyayala>
Am 07.09.2017 um 14:43 schrieb ng0:
> You can take any system configuration file and build a shared or free-standing
> vm with the "guix system" function. It
I'm afraid, you did not get the point (No offence meant!): I know that I
can do this. I also know that I can maintain configs via git. But all
this is the developers perspective.
If somebody is downloading the ISO-image and installing GuixSD on some
machine – stand-alone, no other GuixSD systems around: He/she would
store the system-config somewhere on the machine, change it and
"reconfigure" and hack around. (At least this is what I would do.) So
why there is no starting-point for system-config in the image? Why would
the user need to download it from some (no quite obvious) internet-address?
I also would expect to have the config for this very system at hand.
Yes, the manual has a section "Building the Installation Image", but
*if* I ever recognize this section, I'd still have to dig into the
source and fetch the actual file.
For making live easier for new users and for encouraging them to re-gain
the power over their computer, we should IMHO serve the config on
silver plate.
I hope my motivation is more clear now.
--
Regards
Hartmut Goebel
| Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com |
| www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 17:44 Please put the system-configuration into the image Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-05 17:55 ` Adam Pribyl
2017-09-05 18:05 ` ng0
2017-09-06 17:23 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-07 8:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-07 9:20 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-09-07 12:43 ` ng0
2017-09-08 10:11 ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2017-09-08 11:42 ` Vincent Legoll
2017-09-08 11:45 ` Julien Lepiller
2017-09-08 12:07 ` Vincent Legoll
2017-09-10 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
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