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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> I'm trying to push that to the main distribution but for that the
> package may need some more work because I need to get rid of foreign
> binaries (the ones in
> $PREFIX/share/guile/site/2.0/gnu/packages/bootstrap/). So `zypper in
> guix' for all openSUSE users is still my goal.
> 
> Any help on that from Guix side would be appreciated.
> 
> Besides this, thanks to our the OBS I should be able to setup build
> for other RPM distributions (Fedora, CentOS) but it wasn't my focus
> now.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tomas

I brought this up a bit earlier in IRC but you could rebuild the bootstrap
binaries- but then they'd just be identical to the ones shipped. So are they
really foreign then?

Jookia.