Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-03-09 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi everyone, > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all. Today's software systems are inherentl

Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-03-08 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 8., Vas 21:54): > Hi, > > "Raghav Gururajan" skribis: > > > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot > selectively reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you > either reconfigure the system as a whole

Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Raghav Gururajan" skribis: > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively > reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure > the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all. > > IMPLICATIONS: > > Lets assum

Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-03-01 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Leo! > This is not as much a guix package vs. guix system issue as it is an > issue of explicit manifests against implicit ones. If you use guix > package with manifests and without inferiors, you will have the same > problem. Likewise, you can use inferiors in your config.scm to > mitigate

Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-02-23 Thread Jonathan Frederickson
On Feb 22, 2020, at 9:49 PM, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively > reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure > the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all. This is