Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
ng0 skribis: > 宋文武 writes: > >> dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote: dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by choosing a grub menu item at boot). >>> >>> I don't guess yo

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-10-01 Thread ng0
宋文武 writes: > dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > >> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote: >>> dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: >>> >>> On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by >>> choosing a grub menu item at boot). >> >> I don't guess you happen to be able to supp

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread 宋文武
dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote: >> dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: >> >> On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by >> choosing a grub menu item at boot). > > I don't guess you happen to be able to supply me with the options p

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread dian_cecht
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote: > dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > > On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by > choosing a grub menu item at boot). I don't guess you happen to be able to supply me with the options passed to do this, would you? My system

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread 宋文武
dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:18:40AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > 2) Are multiple versions of a package in the tree at any given time? >> >> You can have multiple profiles, each containing a different version of a >> given package, for example. >> >> The source

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread dian_cecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:07:22PM +, ng0 wrote: > >> 4) Is GnuNET integration already working? > > > > No. > > > > It's like Google Summer of Code, only a bit longer. I'll very optimistic > and say that my internal documented goal for basic gnunet-filesystem > integration for guix is summer /

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread dian_cecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:18:40AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 2) Are multiple versions of a package in the tree at any given time? > > You can have multiple profiles, each containing a different version of a > given package, for example. > > The source tree of Guix itself usually only cont

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > ng0 skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > 4) Is GnuNET integration already working? >>> >>> No. >> >> It's a bit of a stretch (in time), but I've applied for funding >> yesterday and one of the 3 ideas is to push gnunet integration further, >>

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! ng0 skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >>> 4) Is GnuNET integration already working? >> >> No. > > It's a bit of a stretch (in time), but I've applied for funding > yesterday and one of the 3 ideas is to push gnunet integration further, > to aid the live-system I am working on. I sa

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread ng0
Hi, I hope you don't mind if I add to this some lines. Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > dian_ce...@zoho.com skribis: > >> 1) Is there any way to prevent a package from being installed at all? > > Only packages that you want are “installed”, in the sense that only > packages that you explicitly

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, dian_ce...@zoho.com skribis: > 1) Is there any way to prevent a package from being installed at all? Only packages that you want are “installed”, in the sense that only packages that you explicitly ask for are available in your user profile. The /gnu/store directory may contain other packag

Some questions regarding GuixSD

2016-09-30 Thread dian_cecht
Hello, I have a few questions about GuixSD that I need to have answered before I can think about trying to install it. For some background on myself, I'm a long-time Gentoo user, and I've used Funtoo and Arch some in the past. 1) Is there any way to prevent a package from being installed at