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From: | swedebugia |
Subject: | Re: On network management and documenting nmcli |
Date: | Tue, 22 May 2018 14:42:19 +0200 |
On 2018-05-13 21:21, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
You are very true, and while the manual hints at lightweight-desktop.scm, it does not go any further with respect to giving an outlook of what to expect from it: which services, which programs, etc. With little Scheme code the experienced users can investigate that by themselves, but it's not quite obvious for newcomers. If not only for nmcli, I would suggest we document more those pre-defined profiles for the sake of making GuixSD more approachable.
I agree.Here we could choose between just listing them in the manual which increases the work on updating the manual when we change the default profiles or Giving the newcomers the means to see for themselves what programs/services they contain. This should be done in a way that explains more than the name of the service/package does.
Perhaps a new guix command is needed for this e.g.: % guix show %default-services getty | A service that serves tty cups | Printing service that enables printing ... For information about how to remove or add services see Services (info) in the manual.This command "guix show" could then be hinted at in the example configuration files.
--- Swedebugia
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