Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

[Vincent Legoll]

I didn't want to get involved in this but feel the need to chime in to
add my +1 on Hartmut's idea.

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Hartmut Goebel
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 07.09.2017 um 14:43 schrieb ng0:
>> You can take any system configuration file and build a shared or 
>> free-standing
>> vm with the "guix system" function. It
>
> I'm afraid, you did not get the point (No offence meant!): I know that I
> can do this. I also know that I can maintain configs via git. But all
> this is the developers perspective.

Yes I also feel it that way

> If somebody is downloading the ISO-image and installing GuixSD on some
> machine – stand-alone, no other GuixSD systems around: He/she would
> store the system-config somewhere on the machine, change it and
> "reconfigure" and hack around. (At least this is what I would do.)

That's what I did during my previous attempts at trying GuixSD.
Did this in a QEmu VM.

> So
> why there is no starting-point for system-config in the image? Why would
> the user need to download it from some (no quite obvious) internet-address?

+1

> I also would expect to have the config for this very system at hand.
> Yes, the manual has a section "Building the Installation Image", but
> *if* I ever recognize this section, I'd still have to dig into the
> source and fetch the actual file.
>
> For making live easier for new users and for encouraging them to re-gain
> the power over their computer, we should IMHO serve the config on
> silver plate.
>
> I hope my motivation is more clear now.

You're not alone

-- 
Vincent Legoll