Re: Missed testing

2019-03-12 Thread Jeremiah
> Also, that doesn't help on initial installation which should be made > much more user-friendly. Fault tolerant is far more important than user-friendly because a reliable system is far easier to make user-friendly than it is to make a user-friendly system fault tolerant. > That sounds very stra

Re: Missed testing

2019-03-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
FWIW, I agree that error handling when booting the Guix system leaves a lot to be desired. Because of the system rollback feature it's not so bad, but we should advertise that feature, and that ",bournish" works, before dropping into the repl. Also, that doesn't help on initial installation which

Re: Missed testing

2019-03-12 Thread Jeremiah
> This depends on your hardware and the modules that the kernel loaded in > response upon booting. There is no way to have a static resource as the > example configuration reflect the modules that can be automatically > loaded by the kernel on all hardware configurations out there. Ok, that is fin

Re: Missed testing

2019-03-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > For example if one were to go to the guixsd website and download the > current release, verify that it was correct, burn onto a DVD and attempt > to install with guix system init /etc/configuration/desktop.scm /mnt > --fallback results in the following error: > > /g