Hi Ricardo,

El 12/10/23 a las 12:28, Ricardo Wurmus escribió:
> Hi,
>
>> 2018-01-17 · website: say what Guix is at the very top
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-01/msg00232.html
> Hey, that’s me!  Naturally, I do agree that we need clearer product
> differentiation and your drafts are pretty and clear as always.

Glad to hear that.


> On the other hand I’ve always felt that the term “package manager” is so
> limiting.  It primes people to expect a package manager, but none of
> the features in the “guix system” family of commands match that.
> Likewise, all that container stuff we do with “guix shell -C” lies just
> outside of what one would think of when hearing “package manager”.

Right. I agree.


> In my presentations I try to drive home the point that Guix is a
> solution for reproducible deployment at every level of scale.  I have a
> set of slides similar to the “Reproducible Outputs” section in your
> home-page.pdf, going from package to environments to containers to
> systems to sites (via “guix deploy”).

Yeah, I've watched your presentations. I used "FOSDEM 2019 GWL: GNU 
Workflow Language" as one of my references; any similarity to actual 
slides is no coincidence :)


> I wonder if we should find a way to phase out the use of the term
> “package manager”, which seems to fire the wrong synapses and awaken
> associations with things that aren’t at all like Guix.

As with product renaming, I also avoided changing the purpose of Guix in 
the proposal to reduce resistance to big changes, but I was tempted to. 
Maybe this is a good time for redefining Guix as well.