From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Frederickson Subject: Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:28:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53040) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j5xrl-0003cg-La for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:28:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5xrj-0003xR-P5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:28:41 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:43479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5xri-0003tU-6m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:28:39 -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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Raghav Gururajan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Feb 22, 2020, at 9:49 PM, Raghav Gururajan w= rote: >=20 > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectiv= ely reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfi= gure 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 s= ervices: you can=E2=80=99t work on a service in isolation and enable it on y= our current system by itself, which would be nice. I ended up building an op= erating-system container with just that service running, which works, but in= creases the time taken for each code-test cycle.=