From: Tomas Volf <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:44:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTRiQ2QmG2IPl91z@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y30j8gi.fsf@elephly.net>
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On 2023-10-21 17:32:13 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > All in all, I guess my position is unchanged: despite the potential for
> > surprises, automating and enforcing these configs provide benefits that
> > outweigh the cons, in my experience/opinion.
>
> I concur.
>
> In light of efforts to reduce cognitive overhead, I think it is a good
> idea to automatically use the default configuration. Contributors can
> opt out,
How can I do that?
> but I prefer not to have to think about yet another important
> piece of configuration here.
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-19 14:36 Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-10-19 15:04 ` Tomas Volf
2023-10-21 14:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-21 14:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-21 15:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-21 23:44 ` Tomas Volf [this message]
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