Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis: > On Tue 25 Aug 2015 22:36, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> However, the above means that the >> reconfigure-but-don’t-switch-until-reboot behavior would no longer be >> possible. > > Not sure what this case is for -- either you want to expose the newly > reconfigured apps to the user or you don't, right? In the former case > it seems that really what you want is to prepare everything for reboot > but only switch the profile on boot. Dunno, I don't have the tao of > guix yet :)
It can be useful if you want to install a new configuration to make it effective at the next reboot, but don’t want to make any change until then. Dunno, maybe this is a uncommon use case, but I think it’s good if we make connections between various components explicit rather than implicit. Thanks, Ludo’.
