Re: Fwd: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to guix after reconfiguring )

[Nils Gillmann]

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.

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> Subject: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to 
> guix after reconfiguring )
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