From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cook, Malcolm" Subject: RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:10:19 +0000 Message-ID: <2600e6b3751d428c8143a16cd514327d@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> References: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> <3125026547a945d28d1b32f57594c4d7@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> <87si0cdhh2.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaRL0-0007Jm-BF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:10:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaRKw-00008p-1E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:10:26 -0500 Received: from smtp01.stowers.org ([40.141.174.61]:57573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaRKv-00008b-MI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:10:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 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