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Re: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD


From: Thompson, David
Subject: Re: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:53:34 -0400

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt
<address@hidden> wrote:
> See the attached file for reference. Put it into a guix checkout under
>
> nonfree/packages/
>
> Does that help as a starting point?

Do the upstream Firefox and/or Thunderbird contain nonfree components?
 If so, please do not promote such software on this list.

I really really really cannot recommend this approach to packaging,
because it goes against one of the core properties of Guix:
reproducibility.  Taking someone else's binary and hacking it until it
works isn't a real solution.  The proper way to do this is to build
binaries from source that are compatible with Guix.

Thanks,

- Dave



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