Re: [bug-recutils] Problems building with readrec

[Leo Famulari]

Guix was inspired by / derived from Nix which also is a standalone package 
manager or a full OS (NixOS).

So there is Guix, the package manager, and GuixSD, the operating system.

You can choose between them here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/

On October 10, 2015 7:04:03 PM EDT, Charles Millar <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>On 10/10/2015 06:18 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015, at 17:54, Charles Millar wrote:
>>> I ahd to look up Guix, so I guess you are using GNU; how is it?
>> Currently I'm using Guix within Debian. I plan to try out the full
>Guix
>> system soon. In general it works very well and I prefer it over
>> packaging systems. Also the community is very supportive.
>>
>> However, at the moment we are suffering the results of glibc changing
>> the locale format from 2.21 to 2.22. I guess nobody ever thought you
>> would install multiple glibcs on one system and thus didn't question
>> making incompatible changes to the locales. It's not pretty for
>people
>> who are using Guix within another OS (like me). You have to build a
>few
>> symlinks by hand to get things mostly working. But their build farm
>is
>> currently building their internal fix and they are trying to get a
>fix
>> into glibc upstream.
>>
>On one page
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
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>"GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system 
><http://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html> developed by the GNU Project" 
><http://www.gnu.org/>
>
>on another
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/about/
>
>"GuixSD is a GNU/Linux distribution . . . ."
>
>I thought it would be one or the other, but not both.
>
>Charlie Millar