Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

[Luis Felipe]

Hi Simon,

El 12/10/23 a las 8:07, Simon Tournier escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 00:15, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a proposal to help differentiate Guix, the package manager,
> > from Guix System.
> I agree with this proposal.
>
> For what it is worth, I remember a discussion past year at 10 Years of
> Guix with researchers – interested by reproducible research and not
> really knowing what Guix is – and after some search engine queries, they
> ended on the website guix.gnu.org.  From the information there, 1. they
> did not get what Guix is and 2. they had the feeling that Guix is not
> for their tasks.  Your proposal really helps here!

Glad to hear that :)


> > Mockup:
> > https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/temp/guix-website-2023-09-21-LF/home-page.pdf
> Well, comments.
>
> 1.
> Instead of replicate or reproduce that have different meaning depending
> on communities, I prefer to use the weak-defined ’redeploy’ which cover the
> idea.
>
>      “and make these eaiser to redeploy in one or many devices, and over time.”
>
> For instance, the word “replicate” could confuse this community who
> expect the word “reproduce”.
>
> “What’s the difference between replication and reproduction?“
> https://rescience.github.io/faq/
>
> Well, for instance:
>
> “Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology”
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778115/

Thanks, I'm taking note of this.


> 2.
> I would not write “without superuser privileges” since you need at least
> once – for installing.  Hum, I have no alternative wording.

Right. I've been living in the Guix System for so long now...


> 3.
> I would not write “50 years later”.  Instead, just “Get the same
> environment in the future”.

The reason I used the specific number was to make it clearer that Guix 
should allow reproducible outputs for generations to come, instead of 
just some near future.


> 4.
> How to go from “Guix Package Manager” to “Guix System” and vice-versa?

I don't think I understand. Do you mean how would people go from the 
package manager home page to the operating system page?


> > Looking forward to your comments,
> Well, from my perspective, your proposal makes clearer information about
> the different Guix.
Thanks for checking it out, Simon :)

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