From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 08:28:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e92b944e-41b7-8513-4f21-980326951377@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=piCRGmsuXxxJ0jUy5kHFLjx5WPCpOcQpM2P6qq_5XZpnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi everyone,
> > 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.
Today's software systems are inherently non-modular. Guix is the most
advanced technology we have to work around this problem, but it doesn't
solve it. The problem is so hard to solve because it requires most of
all a change in everyone's attitude towards software development, and
thus very probably different organizational structures (because of
Conway's Law).
Cheers,
Konrad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-09 7:28 UTC|newest]
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
2020-03-08 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-09 6:18 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-09 7:28 ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
[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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