James Crake-Merani <james@jamescm.co.uk>
anaandika:

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> Hi,
>
> The reason why I have been a bit reluctant to use GNU Guix for this
> sort of thing is that the distro I use is not Guix but rather Arch
> Linux.

I run Arch Linux + GNU Guix (as a package manager)
and it's a nice experience.  I use GNU Guix as my
primary package manager.  I'd recommend you give
it a try ;)

> I do intend to try out GNU Guix in the future but at the moment
> I have lots of other things to do. I am aware Guix does work on
> foreign distros but I will need to learn how to use it first.
>
> I understand what you say regarding Guile Hall. I too do not
> understand the autotools machinery but it did seem simple to setup
> without that understanding. Thanks for sharing your repository.
>

Worth mentioning that GNU Guix provides facilities
for bundling packages using "guix pack".  You
could provide "tar.gz" files, or even bundle
things inside docker/squashfs containers for easy
distribution without requiring your end-user to
download anything extra. For more read:
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html#Invoking-guix-pack>

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