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The way to promote GUIX package manager


From: Sławomir Lach
Subject: The way to promote GUIX package manager
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:09:19 +0100

Maybe it's road to security hell, but it is also very important for beginners 
and developers.

Promote GNU GUIX by add support for installers/some scripts, which detects OS 
and install software by package manager based on detection.
It is very hard to keep this kind of scripts fresh, because distribution will 
evolve. One think, that developers should still do is keep instructions to 
install guix package manager for some distros, but it is easier than keep 
instruction to install ton of packages. Maybe creating script to install guix 
for distributions and place it on single place + allow distro vendor to change 
it? Solution is simple:
1. Keep older packages in GUIX repo, so developers could request older version 
in scripts
2. Send patches to developers of these scripts, which will detects if there is 
gnu guix package manager on target system installed and request to install 
packages in exact versions, if there was gnu guix installed

USE CASES:
1. KDevelop could request to install developers tools, such like gcc, gdb, 
php, etc.
2. Gaming managers could base on gnu guix instead of custom repository
3. ETC.

RESULT:
Simpler script to maintain, more distribution addressed, user do not have to 
worry if script will work for one's distro, faster advantage in linux 
ecosystem. Minus: possible security hell.





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