Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 00:15, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> This is a proposal to help differentiate Guix, the package manager,
> from Guix System.

I agree with this proposal.

For what it is worth, I remember a discussion past year at 10 Years of
Guix with researchers – interested by reproducible research and not
really knowing what Guix is – and after some search engine queries, they
ended on the website guix.gnu.org.  From the information there, 1. they
did not get what Guix is and 2. they had the feeling that Guix is not
for their tasks.  Your proposal really helps here!


> Mockup:
> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/temp/guix-website-2023-09-21-LF/home-page.pdf

Well, comments.

1.
Instead of replicate or reproduce that have different meaning depending
on communities, I prefer to use the weak-defined ’redeploy’ which cover the
idea.

    “and make these eaiser to redeploy in one or many devices, and over time.”

For instance, the word “replicate” could confuse this community who
expect the word “reproduce”.

“What’s the difference between replication and reproduction?“
https://rescience.github.io/faq/

Well, for instance:

“Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778115/


2.
I would not write “without superuser privileges” since you need at least
once – for installing.  Hum, I have no alternative wording.

3.
I would not write “50 years later”.  Instead, just “Get the same
environment in the future”.

Here, similarly as #1, I would use the term “redeploy”.

4.
How to go from “Guix Package Manager” to “Guix System” and vice-versa?

> Looking forward to your comments,

Well, from my perspective, your proposal makes clearer information about
the different Guix.

Cheers,
simon