* GNU Distribution
@ 2012-12-09 16:47 KarlOskar Rikås
2012-12-09 17:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: KarlOskar Rikås @ 2012-12-09 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: bug-guix
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In GUIX page it says the following:
"A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of
Guix."
Is it possible to get any details on this?
Thanks, klr.
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* Re: GNU Distribution
2012-12-09 16:47 GNU Distribution KarlOskar Rikås
@ 2012-12-09 17:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-09 20:20 ` Andreas Enge
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2012-12-09 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: KarlOskar Rikås; +Cc: bug-guix
Hi,
KarlOskar Rikås <kalle97r@gmail.com> skribis:
> In GUIX page it says the following:
>
> "A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of
> Guix."
>
> Is it possible to get any details on this?
“User-land distribution” means that it provides packages for user-land
software that can be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system.
Currently it includes just ~100 packages, including the GNU libc, GCC,
Coreutils, and Guile.
The goal is to eventually make it a bootable, stand-alone distribution.
See <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-11/msg00000.html>
and <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP> for details.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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* Re: GNU Distribution
2012-12-09 17:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2012-12-09 20:20 ` Andreas Enge
2012-12-09 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Andreas Enge @ 2012-12-09 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: bug-guix
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Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> “User-land distribution” means that it provides packages for user-land
> software that can be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system.
> Currently it includes just ~100 packages, including the GNU libc, GCC,
> Coreutils, and Guile.
This was actually my first deception with Guix: I was looking forward to
contributing a GNU MPC package, since there was no file mpc.scm; but it
is actually available, only via multiprecision.scm :-)
Why not having one file per package?
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb KarlOskar Rikås:
> In GUIX page it says the following:
> "A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of
> Guix."
> Is it possible to get any details on this?
Executing
guix-package --list-available
currently lists 92 packages, from "acl" to "zlib".
Andreas
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* Re: GNU Distribution
2012-12-09 20:20 ` Andreas Enge
@ 2012-12-09 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2012-12-09 20:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Andreas Enge; +Cc: bug-guix
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> This was actually my first deception with Guix: I was looking forward to
> contributing a GNU MPC package, since there was no file mpc.scm; but it
> is actually available, only via multiprecision.scm :-)
>
> Why not having one file per package?
Currently we have more-or-less one file per package, except for sets of
closely related packages, like GMP/MPFR/MPC.
There’s a slight overhead associated with each file (license header,
module declaration, module imports, additional ‘stats’ when doing
package searches or ‘--list-available’, etc.) That’s why I thought we
could try an in-between approach like this.
I’m open to suggestions on this front, though!
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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