From: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan@terracrypt.net>
To: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:28:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DF235445-FAC6-4703-B5A8-0AB66A26EA04@terracrypt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3bb8df9372b1992d1e669db08e4e0b5@disroot.org>
On Feb 22, 2020, at 9:49 PM, Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all.
This is something that also made it a bit difficult to get started writing services: you can’t work on a service in isolation and enable it on your current system by itself, which would be nice. I ended up building an operating-system container with just that service running, which works, but increases the time taken for each code-test cycle.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-23 2:49 Thoughts on making Guix even better Raghav Gururajan
2020-02-23 20:28 ` Jonathan Frederickson [this message]
2020-03-08 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-09 6:18 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-09 7:28 ` Konrad Hinsen
[not found] <24c65c56c37b309c108f75fb9e3e4681866e7fac.camel@student.tugraz.at>
2020-02-23 17:14 ` Leo Prikler
2020-03-01 10:26 ` Raghav Gururajan
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