Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-11 Thread Nils Gillmann
George Clemmer transcribed 733 bytes: > Hi Nils, > > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > 4) before each profile kind is used for the first time, > > make use of something like this for the brief introduction > > of it again (our manual is not very long, but it is still > > long): > > I

Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-10 Thread George Clemmer
Hi Nils, Nils Gillmann writes: > 4) before each profile kind is used for the first time, > make use of something like this for the brief introduction > of it again (our manual is not very long, but it is still > long): I Agee. > @cartouche > @quotation Note > In the following

Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-10 Thread George Clemmer
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi George, > > George Clemmer skribis: > >> ISTM we can improve this situation as follows: >> >> 1) agree on a canonical term to use for the 4 types of profiles > > I think you mentioned only two types of “profiles”: one is profiles > created by ‘guix package’ or ‘guix

Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi George, George Clemmer skribis: > ISTM we can improve this situation as follows: > > 1) agree on a canonical term to use for the 4 types of profiles I think you mentioned only two types of “profiles”: one is profiles created by ‘guix package’ or ‘guix environment’ or ‘guix system’ (they are

Re: [doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-10 Thread Nils Gillmann
George Clemmer transcribed 1.4K bytes: > ISTM our doc is a veritable "Profile Blizzard." > > > The term occurs 173 times in guix.texi > > > The "user profile" is referred to in multiple ways: > > (guix) Application Setup: "your Guix profile" > > (guix) Features: 'own “profile”', "per-user p

[doc RFC] Tame the Guix profile blizzard?

2018-07-09 Thread George Clemmer
ISTM our doc is a veritable "Profile Blizzard." The term occurs 173 times in guix.texi The "user profile" is referred to in multiple ways: (guix) Application Setup: "your Guix profile" (guix) Features: 'own “profile”', "per-user profiles", "their profile" (guix) Invoking guix package: "us