Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense, Guix, and the future of GNU

[Guilherme Vieira]

Sam, what presentation are you referring to...?

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Sam Geeraerts  wrote:
> Op Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:30:21 -0500
> schreef Felipe Lopez <address@hidden>:
>
> > What do gNewSense users and developers think about GNU Guix? Should
> > we go for gNewSense 4 or should we go for GNU Guix 1.0?
>
> I had some time to watch Ludovic's presentation. It does seem like the
> ultimate GNU distro, in principle. The team has come a long way in a
> short time, but the package count is still relatively low. Also, the
> young package manager, new init system, uncommon file system, potential
> (temporary) dependency hell as the list of packages and versions grow,
> not much attention for security (yet, afaict), aversion of patches
> (possibly hindering integration) and the lack of post-install scripts
> (I'm not sure yet how their alternative works) makes it very
> interesting to hack on, but still a way off from being a distro that
> grandma can use on her Yeeloong.
>
> My understanding is that Guix is not just a package manager, but also
> provides/needs its own operating system. So it probably can't be used
> with gNewSense as an addition to apt to allow users to install GNU
> packages in their home directories.
>
> I think that at this moment both gNewSense en Guix are worthwile
> projects to work on.
>
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Atenciosamente / Sincerely,
Guilherme Prá Vieira