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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, gwl-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install GWL?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:46:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ0ZLAsS+bbRJkPUW1jEVK2UDKJ9Vi8JtU8FCaS-w82JGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eevfubob.fsf@elephly.net>

Hi Ricardo,

On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 12:07, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> Channels don’t allow for any fancy installation or setup.  The Guile
> modules provided by a channel are compiled just in time when running
> “guix pull”.  It doesn’t seem like a good idea for the GWL to hook into
> the channels mechanism when it doesn’t provide what channels were
> designed to help implement: extensions to the package graph.

I got it. :-)


> I think inferiors also give GWL users a feature that would otherwise be
> missing: to run arbitrary workflows with arbitrary channel definitions
> via inferiors without having to first manually execute “guix pull” to
> switch to the particular channels that a workflow requires.  Using
> inferiors gives a superior user experience, in my opinion.

I understand.

Thank you for explaining. Now, it is all clear to me.


Cheers,
simon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-05 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 21:55 How to install GWL? Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-23  1:15 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-01-23 10:06   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-01  9:26     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-05 14:34       ` zimoun
2020-02-05 19:36         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-10  0:22           ` zimoun
2020-01-23  1:17 ` zimoun
2020-01-23 11:14 ` Roel Janssen
2020-01-23 11:24   ` zimoun
2020-01-23 13:02     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-23 14:18       ` zimoun
2020-01-23 13:12   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-31  9:16 ` zimoun
2020-01-31 11:07   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-01 11:49     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 13:50       ` zimoun
2020-02-05 13:46     ` zimoun [this message]

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