swedebugia transcribed 5.0K bytes: > Hi > > I just reported this bug. > > As a reaction to the recent guix pull update and the people who had a bad > experience I have an idea. > > We create a new guix command that > 1) analyze the current users paths and tell them if > 1.1) they are good and warns them if they are not and propose a solution in a > user-friendly way. > 2) gives them the possibility to scan and inherit a newer guix from another > user without having to run guix pull, build a derivation etc.
Wouldn't the two points below be something for a man page? At least they would include a manpage and a local mail telling you to read more on it if I'd do it. > 3) (perhaps) educates the users about what happens when they run pull, > reconfures, etc. as different users. > 4) (perhaps) helps them to abuse the symlinks so that e.g. roots profile > follow the current user's or vice versa. > > This would enable new users to do a sanity check on guix when they don't yet > understand the way guix symlinks, store, pulling, etc. works. > > This would also save time and bandwidth because you really don't want to run > guix pull multiple times as different users considering the time it takes to > compile. > > What do you think? Some are a bit vague but in general those are good ideass. > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: help-debb...@gnu.org > Sent: June 20, 2018 5:20:02 AM GMT+02:00 > To: swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> > Subject: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to > guix after reconfiguring ) > > Thank you for filing a new bug report with debbugs.gnu.org. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message > has been received. > > Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > bug-g...@gnu.org > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to 31...@debbugs.gnu.org. > > Please do not send mail to help-debb...@gnu.org unless you wish > to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. > > -- > 31907: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31907 > GNU Bug Tracking System > Contact help-debb...@gnu.org with problems > > -- > Cheers Swedebugia
