Subject: Re: [bug#58583] [PATCH 0/1] scripts: package: Forbid installation of the guix package.

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:20:06 +0200

Heyo,

zimoun 写道：
> Not necessary or I am missing something.  For instance, you want 
> to
> build some Guile application relying on the Guix library; 
> similarly as
> you have, say, guile-commonmark or any other Guile packages.

Sure.

> Yes, it is possible to do without installing the package guix 
> but it is
> not handy.  Aside, it is not always clear which revision of the 
> API is
> available when the package guix fixes it.

OK.  But could you explain more clearly how

  $ guix install guix

is involved, and how it is ‘handy’?

How does one continue to use guix *as a package manager*, having 
now silently broken ‘guix pull’?

> For instance, if an user packs their Guile application using 
> some other
> Guile libraries including the Guix library, then for developing, 
> it
> becomes not possible to just locally create a profile.

Why not?

> But maybe I am missing something.

Or we are!

Kind regards,

T G-R