Hi Ludo, > What do you mean by “limit it to channels”? ‘%default-channels’ is an > alias for the official Guix channel (IOW, Guix itself.)
Fine, but I rarely care about all of Guix, or all of any other channel. I care about the small subset of packages that I actually use. Better yet, with a per-manifest/profile approach, I could put my most critical packages in a special profile and get updates for them more quickly, while still working only with substitutes. BTW, just out of curiosity: for how many commits in Guix history all packages could be built successfully? Is that the rule of the exception? > Yes, we could do that, and even maybe more sophisticated things (e.g., > looking at the commit log to determine whether security fixes are > available, and adjusting the strategy accordingly.) Nice! > What I find interesting is that we can provide the tools to support such > policies, and then users can choose or implement the policy they want > directly in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm. I agree, it's nice to give people the tools they need to implement their own policy. Konrad.
