Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

[Hartmut Goebel]

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.

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.) 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?

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.

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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