Clément Lassieur <[email protected]> writes: > 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
Sorry if I sounded a bit rude, it wasn't my intention. :-)
