GNU Distribution

GNU Distribution

[KarlOskar Rikås]

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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

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.

Re: GNU Distribution

[Andreas Enge]

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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

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.