Am 07.09.2017 um 10:30 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > However, I don’t quite understand the use case: you’d like to hack on > the OS declaration of the image from within the image? That sounds > inconvenient no?
My use case is this: I plan to use GuixSD for one of my systems. Prior to installing GuixSD on real hardware, I want to test it and see how a GuixSD system would work and feel. And taking the perspective of a non-developer, I don't have any GuixSD yet. I may be using Fedora or Debian and want to try out GuixSD. For this I use the QEMU image My understanding is that I would have a system-definition describing this very system and if I want to change the system-configuration, I change the system-definition. On e.g. Debian I would apt-get software and change config-files, while on GuixSD I would change the system-definition and reconfigure. And I imagine to have the corresponding system-definition *in* the system, since in this use-case there is no separate "main GuixSD installation". Like when using ansible, puppet, etc. for managing *this* system, I need the system definition *for* this system *in* this system. I hope this is clearer now. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
