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Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager
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Yasuaki Kudo |
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Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:40:56 +0900 |
Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian?
I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me that:
* Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work
* and his really big complaint is evidently he creates "virtual environments"
(short of full-on VMware, I imagine it is an assortment of Linux native tricks
that are wrapped by tools like Docker) for every OS he tries but
* Evidently the same tricks don't work with Guix
* He does not want to try full blown Guix OS without first testing it in above
ways
* He is very comfortable with Debian - doesn't see any benefit that Guix brings
I cannot comment much because the whole point of my using Guix is precisely
because I know very little if Linux and its surrounding toolset so I want to
abstract it, paper it over with Guix 😄
-Yasu
> On Jan 27, 2022, at 06:43, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
> 
> SÅ‚awomir Lach <slawek@lach.art.pl> writes:
>
>> Solution is simple:
>> 1. Keep older packages in GUIX repo, so developers could request older
>> version
>> in scripts
>
> Unforunately, it’s really not that simply to keep older packages around.
> I’m maintaining packages for a bunch of bioinformatics tools, for
> example, which are stuck in the past. Building them becomes more and
> more difficult as time passes and the rest of the world moves on. It is
> not feasible to maintain an ever-growing collection of outdated software
> and their toolchains.
>
> But: Guix supports channels, so people who absolutely must use GCC 3 to
> build their abandoned tools to build their old source code that’s stuck
> in the past can totally do that.
>
>> Minus: possible security hell.
>
> :)
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
- The way to promote GUIX package manager, SÅ‚awomir Lach, 2022/01/26
- Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/26
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