From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:37:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20160208133731.04368044@debian-netbook> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160208104530.GA26946@crashnator.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/+n183S4BiP90KBC+Y551rRf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSk8V-0005po-9g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 06:37:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSk8S-0007UZ-3E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 06:37:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160208104530.GA26946@crashnator.suse.cz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?VG9tw6HFoSDEjGVjaA==?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/+n183S4BiP90KBC+Y551rRf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:45:30 +0100 Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 =C4=8Cech wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > >Maybe we should have a place to collect ideas? > > > >Anyway, here would be my top items for GSoC: > > > > - An installer wizard (written in Guile of course!) > > - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for > > .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian > > and Fedora =20 >=20 > What would be purpose of that? Do you plan to use some other store path s= o it > won't collide with Guix maintained installation on the same machine? >=20 > OTOH it may be interesting to generate only (in my case) RPM metadata > so native system's package manager can track Guix generated files and > use pre/post install scripts for interactions with Guix (to > install/remove/protect them). That would glue Guix to system even > better. Just wild idea when thinking about your idea... >=20 > S_W like checkinstall? It would be nice if a foreign distro to have graphical programs just work, integrated into the system like their own native progra= ms. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --Sig_/+n183S4BiP90KBC+Y551rRf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWuH37AAoJEPTB05F+rO6TGzQP/38UhqFSEukiwjJmNNFCcptu uCzw/tpGKV16jD1+zky/ALy0C2edq4Mqe4ZHXztjnzVJ3ey8f7+S+7Ty2KgInfau p9STlRfXTwPd0bSan0qOLLtJV1oAu44V0jqJUw+vWTOIHyeAYOJmynV0M3+lV3JH IYU6D45gL+TYI60ObfGBWt3zXaQA30NcJ4K0wOznfZFq5KH4L2LBG4bqB9d1T6IT xB/9k6Z5zsAl3cFtq3DOjLscyquLcEspuguldr4QREL3kxpz8fdDc58zrG5/Fx1n ZQ8cmdCnY3Uh3vCiHtSnwkVPQQDQurAFtnJ0likl2GphdmOkm16TWx1UC0D3teAR PDhS8BOaoGxfLi1MrhB5qia7RY/ISdKLVodazup1ogoANIpmfS+7z926baC7Oo5p Em8c4VvMbMbqDsWBaqbQL5Hll1u0V/NQgIClu18BIv2diAJFiWql+hWE+SB3hOEh 3iSrtDQPumXxaMzY94DRd0ucj2Yh+13KB42f2kvKe5VZOW5nJ2birf+aGctNK/f/ V33U//DewSFsd9UxdW6d4cECVySvc9ShQ5z7iqYZiJQ2NfUrpbUFAPVQyNFUYz2a 4GXFcEyDgX6PXcWoT3TqPxPBPDkiCqSRdNqfSv2HA4jc50/9+k3mAKjYUU481DAU FINWfB4HH0fJR/W1fleQ =9/A8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+n183S4BiP90KBC+Y551rRf--