Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Another important IMHO for tomorrow's discussion which I guess I did not mention but is quite useful and came to my mind : --list-installed :) Regards! Laura
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Hi Guix!Since tomorrow we have our 15 min final discussion, sth came into my mind while reading the documentation again > I am also looking for a video about manifests. WDYT about mentioning how powerful a manifest is, but let the "CLI session" maybe for another video. For example, when mentioning the basics, just say "instead of installing each package one by one, or if you want to have your profile generated once, or have it in several machines, then a manifest is a good idea" (doesn't have to be that sentence). Think about it for tomorrow's discussion :) Regards! Laura
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
On 2019-02-08 18:43, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Björn Höfling writes: > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. Is "--manifest" really "daily use" for a Guix newbie? I would disagree and first stick to the "--install" --"remove "--rollback" "--list-generations" mode. You’re probably right. I keep recommending the use of manifests here at work, but I suppose this could be explained in another video (with a focus on reproducibility maybe). I am also looking for a video about manifests. -- Amirouche ~ amz3 ~ http://www.hyperdev.fr
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Björn Höfling writes: >> > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, >> > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) >> >> Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” >> for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. > > Is "--manifest" really "daily use" for a Guix newbie? I would disagree > and first stick to the "--install" --"remove "--rollback" > "--list-generations" mode. You’re probably right. I keep recommending the use of manifests here at work, but I suppose this could be explained in another video (with a focus on reproducibility maybe). -- Ricardo
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Björn Höfling writes: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:17:21 +0100 > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: [...] >> Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” >> for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. > > Is "--manifest" really "daily use" for a Guix newbie? it *should* be, it's strongly advised: using manifests has a _very_ little learning curve, it's a **huge** enhancement at a very little cost; every Guix user *must* know this from the very beginning at first a newbie *could* not fully understand and appreciate this, but this distinguishing feature must stimulate each and every newbie to understand the underling concept of declarative stateless installation ...aka: Guix is very smart as a package manager (with rollbacks too!), but it'm much more than a package manager ...just my two cents :-) [...] Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:17:21 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Laura, > > > My next video will be about daily using of Guix. > > Neat! +1 > > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) > > Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” > for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. Is "--manifest" really "daily use" for a Guix newbie? I would disagree and first stick to the "--install" --"remove "--rollback" "--list-generations" mode. > > > but > > also about guix pull and guix gc. > > The videos should be about 3 min length (+/-) 1. > > Do you think that they should be included in the same video or split > > them in two? > > I think “guix pull” deserves its own video, because it can be combined > with channels. I would mention the simplest version of "guix pull", i.e. the way it is set up by default with the "default" channel. I think it is a really important tool, compared to "apt-get update" on Debian. We can then put the more complicated parts like channels into another video, but I think that a simple "guix pull" MUST be in here. > Same with “guix gc”, because it has a bunch of features other than > garbage collection. I have no strong opinion here. Björn pgpulldY4T2yN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Laura Lazzati writes: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 7:17 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, >> > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) >> >> Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” >> for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. > What about --list-generaitions, --delete-generations? > -url-substitutes? Or are they too much / go whith gc? I would skip “--substitute-urls” because it’s not a very common thing to change. “--list-generations” and “--delete-generations” could very well be part of the video on “guix package”. -- Ricardo
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Hi! On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 7:17 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) > > Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” > for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. What about --list-generaitions, --delete-generations? -url-substitutes? Or are they too much / go whith gc?
Re: New videos: topic daily use.
Hi Laura, > My next video will be about daily using of Guix. Neat! > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. > but > also about guix pull and guix gc. > The videos should be about 3 min length (+/-) 1. > Do you think that they should be included in the same video or split > them in two? I think “guix pull” deserves its own video, because it can be combined with channels. Same with “guix gc”, because it has a bunch of features other than garbage collection. -- Ricardo
New videos: topic daily use.
Hi Guix! How are you? My next video will be about daily using of Guix. I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them), but also about guix pull and guix gc. The videos should be about 3 min length (+/-) 1. Do you think that they should be included in the same video or split them in two? Regards :) Laura
