From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Daniel Schäfer" <git@danielschaefer.me>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:19:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190926121942.e67w6cx53u6yy2qx@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b873e745-c514-671d-b2ad-be8fb5bce7ee@danielschaefer.me>
Hi Daniel,
Nix and Guix are quite different even though they share the same root.
I used Nix for 10-odd years until I discovered GNU Guix.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:13:05AM +0200, Daniel Schäfer wrote:
> How much of that is still true? The daemon is not compatible anymore and
> I don't think it is a good idea to have two different daemons share the same sto
> re.
Correct. There are two databases and the hashes are different anyway.
No gain and plenty of potential pain.
> Is there still the a possibility to use either Nix on GuixSD or Guix on NixOS
> without duplicating the store or running two daemons?
> Or e.g. use Nix with Guile?
It is safe to use two stores and two daemons. Virtue of isolation :)
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 2:13 Compatibility between Nix and Guix Daniel Schäfer
2019-09-26 12:19 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2019-09-27 13:25 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2019-09-27 20:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-28 15:38 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-28 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
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