From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:24:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mudrxvs8.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mudd59ho.fsf@gnu.org> <877e4glyc3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9rxx8ri.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0e4oy51.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <878sop6icq.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0drscng.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iX0gR-0002zN-BO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:24:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iX0gN-0002Qd-By for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:24:31 -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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: zimoun Cc: Guix Devel Hi Simon, > So, you propose to "enrich" the DSL describing the manifest files, right? Perhaps. I suppose there are several possible approaches, and I don't claim to know what works best before actually trying. One way is to "harden" manifest files, providing richer constructs for defining and transforming packages but putting them into a sandbox. Another way is to push as much information as possible into channels and make manifests little more than lists of package references. Cheers, Konrad.