Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Please find below another project suggestion for GNU Guix for this 
year's GSoC.

Thanks.
Cyril.

<h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix">Guix</a></h3>

<p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free
software distribution, for the GNU system.  In addition to standard
package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and
roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
garbage collection.</p>

<p><strong>Contact:</strong> bug-guix@gnu.org (to subscribe, see the
   <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix">list-info
page</a>).<br/>
<strong>Mentor:</strong> <a href="mailto:tipecaml@gmail.com">Cyril
Roelandt</a></p>

<h4>Packaging a modern Desktop Environment in GNU Guix</h4>

<p>
GNU Guix is currently a "userland" distribution: users can install it on
top of another distribution, but it is not bootable yet. It provides
around 400 packages, and can already be used to do some serious hacking,
but it lacks nice graphical user interfaces.
</p>

<p>
The project aims at packaging one widely used desktop environment. The
applicant can choose their favorite one, as long as it's neither too big 
(in which case it might be hard to package completely) nor too small
(ie. a simple window manager). Some possible choices could be GNOME,
GNUstep, KDE, XFCE or LXDE.
</p>