Re: Please explain these fundamental terms to me?

2021-09-25 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
> So the software Guix release comes with coul only have source packages and be > able to build everything from source, using Stage0. So the Guix release could only have source packages and be able to build everything from source, using Stage0. (LOL I don't know what I did in that sentence) ‐‐

Re: Please explain these fundamental terms to me?

2021-09-25 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Hi, This should be clarified in the docs. I understand your confusion. Binary seeds are all the binaries that are needed for the instalation to start. They normally include Bash, GCC and that kind of stuff. So the instalation process starts with those and uses them as tools to build all the pac

Re: guix environment --load vs. --file inconsistency

2021-09-25 Thread Attila Lendvai
> as an alternative for '-l'/'--load' there.) I often write simple > packages in individual files, outside of the guix repo or any kind of > proper channel setup, and I don't see much point in requiring every such > package to have its own single-package manifest, although it wouldn't be > too diff