Hi George, George Clemmer <[email protected]> writes:
> Leo Famulari <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:54:49AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> The other aspect, from a maintenance and readability viewpoint, is that >>> we could quickly add up lots of explanations that we’ll have to keep >>> up-to-date and that may make more important information harder to find. >> >> Yeah, I'm worried about this too. It's tough to strike the correct >> balance. > > IMO Guix is great for hackers, maintainers and sysops. The doc is > appropriate for such users, well done, spare, and already voluminous. > > This footnote suggestion, and others rejected in the past, are motivated > by my assumption that you will want to make Guix attractive to less > sophisticated users. But non-hacker users can use Guix pull! Running Guix before it is installed (with pre-inst-env) is described in the manual as a "Hacker trick". > Maybe my assumption is wrong? Maybe you want only "elite" users? Guix pull is well documented, and should be usable for non-elite users. > Or maybe you want to defer the less sophisticated users to later in the > development cycle? Clément
