Re: What’s next?

[Bone Baboon]

Bone Baboon writes:
> 1) Make the core parts of Guix reproducible
>
> Many core parts of Guix are not reproducible.  If more core parts of
> Guix were reproducible it would benefit all Guix users.
>
> There are several core parts of Guix that are not reproducible
> including:
>
> * Linux-libre
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24028#2
>   Note: I like what the Linux-libre project is doing.
>       This is likely a result of Linux not being reproducible.
>
> * Many guix-*
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48487#0
>
> * Guile
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48490#0
>
> * nss 3.59 on the master branch
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40316#5
>
> * Emacs
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35085#7
>   Note: A good text editor is important.
>         nvi, vim and neovim are reproducible for me.
>       Emacs is more than a text editor and that is a part of why it is
>         not reproducible. 

I have one addition to this.  mariadb is failing to build from source
because of a failing test suite.  As mariadb is a dependency of
diffoscope this is causing diffoscope's build from source to also fail.
diffoscope is a useful tool for gathering information about why a
package is not reproducible.

`guix graph --path diffoscope mariadb` outputs:

```
diffoscope@174
ffmpeg@4.3.2
sdl2@2.0.12
fcitx@4.2.9.8
extra-cmake-modules@5.70.0
qtbase@5.15.2
mariadb@10.5.8
```

More details on how mariadb is failing to build can be seen here
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48151#3>.