Some thoughts on installers

2013-09-17 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I know it’s too early to talk about these issues. But I’m afraid that I’ll forget about them, and we’ll make the same mistakes as everyone else. I haven’t seen an installer that isn’t organized in a step-by-step fashion. A user is forced to press the “Next” button every 5 minutes or so. It’s

Re: Some thoughts on installers

2013-09-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: I haven’t seen an installer that isn’t organized in a step-by-step fashion. A user is forced to press the “Next” button every 5 minutes or so. It’s impossible to do anything else because that will increase the installation time. So the user

PRELIMINARY: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--list-generations'.

2013-09-17 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I think it’s reasonable to have a first milestone without recutils output. OK. Not sure what you mean by “two record sets”. “You can have two record sets: one for generations, one for packages.” [1] I see two use cases: one where you just want human-friendly output, for when one is