bug#53224: Profile definition, was Re: bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:56:20PM -0500, Matt wrote: >> Leo is 100% correct that my understanding is still rather weak. I'll do my >> best despite that to help make the documentation better. > > I hope you will not feel too bad about that. Remember, everyone begins

bug#53224: Profile definition, was Re: bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-17 Thread Matt
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:16:28 -0500 Ludovic Courtès wrote > > This person spent a lot of time trying to understand the situation and > > writing the blog post, but their understanding is still rather weak. > > To be fair, the person didn’t look for “profile” in the manual. I’m

bug#53224: Profile definition, was Re: bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:56:20PM -0500, Matt wrote: > Leo is 100% correct that my understanding is still rather weak. I'll do my > best despite that to help make the documentation better. I hope you will not feel too bad about that. Remember, everyone begins by not knowing anything. Your situat

bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari skribis: > I pointed to this blog post, which was linked from that email: > >> > Specifically see this blog post: >> > http://excalamus.com/2021-10-06-guix-debug.html > > It's the story of an attempt to learn what the "conflicting entries" > message means and how to resolve

bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-14 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 09:47:52AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Recently, Matt pointed out that profile collisions can be confusing and > > difficult to resolve: > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-01/msg00115.html > > I don’t see the words “profile” and “collision” her

bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 10:02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Currently, on profile collisions, the error message shows where the > collision originates and a hint on how to work around it. Perhaps the > hint is sometimes wrong (in which cases?), or perhaps it’s too terse? > Can it be improved? I

bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > Recently, Matt pointed out that profile collisions can be confusing and > difficult to resolve: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-01/msg00115.html I don’t see the words “profile” and “collision” here; maybe that was upthread? > Specifically see

bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-12 Thread Leo Famulari
Recently, Matt pointed out that profile collisions can be confusing and difficult to resolve: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-01/msg00115.html Specifically see this blog post: http://excalamus.com/2021-10-06-guix-debug.html I think we should add a Cookbook chapter on the subje