From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Lightning talk at Dconf Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:24:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20160404092409.GA29461@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an0lg-0006XM-DR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:25:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an0ld-0006ym-8S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:25:56 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:33521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an0ld-0006yZ-2P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:25:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline 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: guix-devel@gnu.org I am giving a lightning talk about GNU Guix at Dconf (Berlin, May 4-6): http://dconf.org/2016/schedule/ As is the case with most programming languages, D is struggling with a packaging system (dub, see http://code.dlang.org/) and I want to explain why a simple $HOME packaging system will do fine when more complex deployments are handled by GNU Guix. In other words, keep it simple and leave the complex stuff to Guix. There is also a Birds of a Feather session on 'Building and Packaging Systems' http://dconf.org/2016/talks/bof.html Pj.