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Re: How to install GWL?
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zimoun |
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Re: How to install GWL? |
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Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:46:32 +0100 |
Hi Ricardo,
On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 12:07, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
> Channels don’t allow for any fancy installation or setup. The Guile
> modules provided by a channel are compiled just in time when running
> “guix pull”. It doesn’t seem like a good idea for the GWL to hook into
> the channels mechanism when it doesn’t provide what channels were
> designed to help implement: extensions to the package graph.
I got it. :-)
> I think inferiors also give GWL users a feature that would otherwise be
> missing: to run arbitrary workflows with arbitrary channel definitions
> via inferiors without having to first manually execute “guix pull” to
> switch to the particular channels that a workflow requires. Using
> inferiors gives a superior user experience, in my opinion.
I understand.
Thank you for explaining. Now, it is all clear to me.
Cheers,
simon