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Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix)
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix) |
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Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:53:49 +0200 |
>> Another one, which I think Ricardo has been investigating lately, would be to
>> have users manage their profiles via the Web user interface,
>> guix-web: <https://git.dthompson.us/guix-web.git>. (The video
>> <http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/misc/2015-
>> 01__GNU_Guix__The_Emacs_of_Distros.webm>
>> has a demo starting at around 23mn.)
>
> Hmm, it is not clear to me how this would play out in a multi-user
> environment. Having a web server that could alter per-user profiles
> sounds like a recipe for more confusion, rather than a solution.
>
> In any case, in my opinion, it would be a mistake to have depend on
> another tool (such as guix-web, or something similar) to implement
> functionality that could not be gained at using command-line guix.
> Don't you agree?
Some find a web interface easier to use than the command line. For
those users I suspect the convenience of using a web interface outweighs
the threat of additional confusion. Ultimately, I want both tools to be
available because users differ.
~~ Ricardo
- RE: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Cook, Malcolm, 2015/07/08
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- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Ludovic Courtès, 2015/07/10
- RE: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Cook, Malcolm, 2015/07/10
- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/07/15
- RE: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Cook, Malcolm, 2015/07/15
- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Pjotr Prins, 2015/07/16
- RE: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Cook, Malcolm, 2015/07/18
- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Ludovic Courtès, 2015/07/18
- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), 韋嘉誠, 2015/07/19
- Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Andreas Enge, 2015/07/19
- RE: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix), Cook, Malcolm, 2015/07/20