Re: GNU Distribution

[Andreas Enge]

Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> “User-land distribution” means that it provides packages for user-land

> software that can be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system.

> Currently it includes just ~100 packages, including the GNU libc, GCC,

> Coreutils, and Guile.

 

This was actually my first deception with Guix: I was looking forward to

contributing a GNU MPC package, since there was no file mpc.scm; but it

is actually available, only via multiprecision.scm :-)

 

Why not having one file per package?

 

Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb KarlOskar Rikås:

> In GUIX page it says the following:

> "A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of

> Guix."

> Is it possible to get any details on this?

 

Executing

guix-package --list-available

currently lists 92 packages, from "acl" to "zlib".

 

Andreas