Hi David, David Pirotte <da...@altosw.be> skribis:
>> As a user I want something like ‘apt-get update’, which is what ‘guix >> pull’ tries to do. > > For end-users, cool stuff would be: > > nguix [ guix-ncurse > > u [ update the aptitude cached list of all packages, > [ installed or not... just package descriptions, nothing > [ has been downloaded yet > U [ mark as 'wish to update' > g [ list the above marked for update packages, then fine > tune > [ using =, -, + ... > g ok, download what I really selected to be updated > and update... > > note that the most important aptitude ncurse menu is 'Cancel > pending > actions' :) > > or using emacs, 'à la magit' > > M-x guix-status > u > U > ... How would that differ from what Emacs-Guix provides? >> For Guix developers, I think it’s reasonable to have a traditional GNU >> build system. After all, Guix is also a regular software package that >> people can build from source with “./configure && make && make install”. > > If I could just grab guile-gnutls and “./configure && make && make install” > then I could compile, play, use, learn, contribute with/to guix... David, if your distro does not provide a guile-gnutls package, you can always install Guix via the binary installation method: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html HTH! Ludo’.
