bug#47971: Improve Guix commands for update/upgrade

[Leo Prikler]

Am Freitag, den 23.04.2021, 16:23 +0000 schrieb bo0od:
> Not really personal, Its about when there are new users these
> commands 
> looks horrible.
Sorry for informing you, but your sense for aesthetics is a very
personal thing.  If we really want to talk about UX, much more would be
gained by having a translatable GUI than through questionable command
renamings.

> You can call it personal when im saying use this X instead B while X
> and 
> B has the same bad approach or both are good. This is called personal
> e.g:
> 
> use upgrade instead of distro-upgrade = yeah very much is something
> not 
> really benefiting/different and personal.
> 
> but pull or update , reconfigure or system-upgrade...etc this is not 
> anymore personal as i have already explained in my reasoning above.

- guix pull: You "pull" a fresh set of package descriptions.  Note,
that you can't "push" package descriptions *yet*.
- guix upgrade: You "upgrade" a given user profile.
- guix system reconfigure: You "reconfigure" your "system" according to
the specifications made in some file.  Note, that this is not
inherently an upgrade -- it is perfectly fine only to change some
services, to add new ones, or to do all of those three at once.

Of course, there may come times, when you will have to explain to your
less tech-savvy family members or friends, who you've helped install
Guix, why upgrading all of your packages is such a tedious operation,
that involves this funny command line thing.  I've been there and done
that.  It all makes sense if you take a little time to
explain/understand it properly.

Regards,
Leo