Re: Reorganizing guix package commands

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:46:20AM +0200, Taylan Ulrich Bay??rl??/Kammer wrote:
     
     As an example of the pedagogic benefit of categorizing the commands:
     many users coming from other package managers are confused as to what
     exactly "installing" a package is in Guix.  It actually consists of two
     steps, 1. to ensure the package is in the store (by building or
     downloading), and 2. adding it to the user's profile.  But the term
     "install" doesn't reflect this, and makes users think in terms of
     traditional package managers where installing a package means putting
     its files into /usr.  Introducing newcomers to a command like 'guix
     profile add' as the primary means of adding a package to their
     environment, and briefly explaining the "transparently makes sure the
     package is in the store" part, would have them immediately learn one of
     the basic working principles of Guix.
     

I think the last part of your suggestion is what is really important - 
     * explaining to the user what is going on *    

This is something where I think we can do better.

However if "guix profile add" adds a package to a user's profile,
what does "guix profile rm" do?   Does it remove  a package from the
profile, or does it remove the profile?

J'




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