Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: >> One more thing to consider. While you write this installer, you might >> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as >> reproducible as possible. One of Guix's features is reproducible >> software builds. Shouldn't GuixSD also make it possible to reproduce >> the process of partitioning the system's disks, making its filesystems, >> and configuring the system for the first time? > > Yeah, personally I'd like to have an emacs form which just displays > config.scm (and stores it as a normal file) and has some inline documentation > on what is what and maybe a treeview instead of visible S-Expression parens - > and a validation process whether the stuff makes sense. When you exit, it > just instantiates the system.
That’d be nice. > ncurses actually isn't as flexible - although it has the benefit that the > average user is familiar with how it looks. Yeah, and it’s probably more lightweight as well. Ludo’.
