Hello!
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> I just installed Guix as a package manager on an aarch64 box. The
> manual makes it a little difficult to perform all these steps, because
> the commands cannot be easily copied. We do have the shell script, but
> the manual mentions it only in passing – as a user I skipped over the
> introduction and went straight to step 1, right past the script.
>
> What do you think about mentioning the script in the Installation
> section and only asking users to look in the subsections for details?
Good idea.
> +We recommend the use of this
> +@uref{https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh,
> +shell installer script} to install Guix on top of a running GNU/Linux system,
> +thereafter called a @dfn{foreign distro}.@footnote{This section is concerned
> +with the installation of the package manager, which can be done on top of a
> +running GNU/Linux system. If, instead, you want to install the complete GNU
> +operating system, @pxref{System Installation}.} The script automates the
> +download, installation, and initial configuration of Guix. It should be run
> +as the root user.
Perhaps you could wrap this paragraph in “@quotation Note” to make it
even more visible.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
