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Re: GSoC ideas
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: GSoC ideas |
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Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:37:31 +0200 |
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:45:30 +0100
Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >Maybe we should have a place to collect ideas?
> >
> >Anyway, here would be my top items for GSoC:
> >
> > - An installer wizard (written in Guile of course!)
> > - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for
> > .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian
> > and Fedora
>
> What would be purpose of that? Do you plan to use some other store path so it
> won't collide with Guix maintained installation on the same machine?
>
> OTOH it may be interesting to generate only (in my case) RPM metadata
> so native system's package manager can track Guix generated files and
> use pre/post install scripts for interactions with Guix (to
> install/remove/protect them). That would glue Guix to system even
> better. Just wild idea when thinking about your idea...
>
> S_W
like checkinstall? It would be nice if a foreign distro to have graphical
programs just work, integrated into the system like their own native programs.
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- GSoC ideas, Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/06
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/06
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/06
- Re: GSoC ideas, Tomáš Čech, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas,
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- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Thompson, David, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/08
- Installing Guix on foreign distros, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Tomáš Čech, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Jookia, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/11
- Bootstrapping, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/11