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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

> Previously, I thought that the reason that guix prints so much is that
> it doesn't log it to a file.  But it turns out that it does log it (at
> least it has a build log per derivation), also in the failure case.
> Why print it then when there's no failure?  It doesn't help the user
> at all.  [They’re] not gonna frame the output and hang it on a wall :)

I agree that Guix is too verbose by default.  It would be sufficient if
Guix told the user that it is building from source for some reason.
Upon failure it can print the location of the build log.

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Ricardo

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