Re: User-Friendlyness of Guix and non-scaryness, printing messages

[Arun Isaac]

> But I think 'guix package' can be made a lot more user-friendly by not
> showing the build output (by default).  The summary of what will be
> installed, and some progress indicator or at least something moving to
> show the user it's doing something, and eventually the success or
> failure message is enough.

Is it possible to have `guix package' NOT build from source? I really
hate it when big packages like icecat, epiphany, or libreoffice start
building on my machine. It takes about a day for each one of these
packages to build on my machine, and they generally swap so much into
HDD, that I can hardly do anything else when building. Because of this
inconvenience, I keep postponing upgrading my packages.

Also, sometimes having to "--fallback" to building source is such a
pain. I think the end user needs a Debian-like experience (or like other
conventional non-source distros) where they can ALWAYS download the
latest packages from the repos.