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Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:38:33 +0100
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Sławomir 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not feasible to maintain an ever-growing collection of outdated software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



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