Re: Creating a reliable bootstrap for building from source

[David Pirotte]

Heya,

> As a user I want something like ‘apt-get update’, which is what ‘guix
> pull’ tries to do.

For end-users, cool stuff would be:

        nguix   [ guix-ncurse

                u       [ update the aptitude cached list of all packages,
                        [ installed or not... just package descriptions, nothing
                        [ has been downloaded yet
                U       [ mark as 'wish to update'
                g       [ list the above marked for update packages, then fine 
tune
                        [ using =, -, + ...
                g       ok, download what I really selected to be updated
                        and update...

                note that the most important aptitude ncurse menu is 'Cancel 
pending
                actions' :)

        or using emacs, 'à la magit'

        M-x guix-status
                u
                U
                ...

> For Guix developers, I think it’s reasonable to have a traditional GNU
> build system.  After all, Guix is also a regular software package that
> people can build from source with “./configure && make && make install”.

If I could just grab guile-gnutls and  “./configure && make && make install”
then I could compile, play, use, learn, contribute with/to guix...

Cheers,
David

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