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guix pull switching between profiles/per-user and profiles/default

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39195-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 39195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jimmy <at> thrasibule.mx
Subject: bug#39195: guix pull switching between profiles/per-user and profiles/default
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:04:07 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I even propose that Guix bumps the minor version each time
> core-updates or staging is merged. :-)
> Zero cost for us to bump the minor version. And the plus are:
>
>  - a bit easier to navigate; because there more tags in the repo ;-)
>  - non rolling release users expect version numbering; other said
> current Debian or Ubuntu users are "afraid" to "pull" and be in
> "unstable", so they jump only from version to version.
>
> We could add a policy about the bumping the minor version.
>
> What do you think?

I guess semver doesn’t apply to Guix taken as a whole, so version
numbers should be chosen to suggest how “different” the new release is.
That’s pretty subjective, though.

Ludo’.

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