From: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSoC ideas
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:52:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fuvexotf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zivbxggp.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:24:54 -0800")
Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
> Sorry, I was unclear. What I'm talking about is Guix *as a package
> manager* to be able to be available on foreigh distros so I can
> encourage friends to do:
>
> apt-get install guix
>
> ... and then do user-space hacking with Guix, and use "guix environment"
> for hacking on my projects... I think we'd increase our userbase
> dramatically by getting Guix as a user-space pacakge manager into
> various distros.
I strongly agree with this. To my mind this is the key selling point of
Guix and we need to make it easy to experience this.
But you know, given how well the Guix Binary install + a lame makefile
has worked to install/uninstall on my Debian servers, and the way Guix
kind of includes it's own world, I'm not so sure a .deb package
necessary.
> The gexp part was because of the gexp that (iirc) generates the "tarball
> install" method of things as inspiration... could we build something
> similar that builds a .deb or .rpm of Guix as an install method?
>
> - Chris
Maybe a downloadable install package that does a binary install and is
routinely verified to run on 3 or 4 popular distros is just as good and
has more band for the buck.
Anyway, reading your comments and a couple other recent GSoC GuixSD
installer proposals prompted me to write some general thoughts about
Guix installation which you might find interesting:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg01024.html
Best - George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-25 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-06 11:38 GSoC ideas Pjotr Prins
2016-02-06 12:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 18:54 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-07 10:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-09 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:32 ` myglc2
2016-02-08 10:45 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-08 11:37 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-08 17:24 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 18:45 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-08 19:47 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 20:43 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-09 10:36 ` Installing Guix on foreign distros Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10 8:53 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-10 9:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-10 12:44 ` Jookia
2016-02-11 5:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-11 10:54 ` Bootstrapping Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 23:00 ` GSoC ideas Diane Trout
2016-02-23 23:52 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-24 0:02 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-24 9:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-24 9:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-24 9:36 ` Jookia
2016-02-25 18:15 ` Bootstrap binaries Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-25 20:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 23:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 10:51 ` Jookia
2016-02-28 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 15:10 ` Jookia
2016-02-29 5:22 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-29 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-24 0:32 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Diane Trout
2016-02-24 7:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-24 17:20 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-24 19:36 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 10:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26 1:27 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-24 19:14 ` GSoC ideas Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:24 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:56 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-26 1:28 ` Diane Trout
2016-03-25 20:52 ` myglc2 [this message]
2016-02-09 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 22:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-10 6:12 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-11 2:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-11 17:59 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-21 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 19:07 ` myglc2
2016-02-11 11:46 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-02-11 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-12 11:48 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-11 17:36 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-28 22:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-02-28 23:33 ` Richard Braun
2016-03-02 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 10:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-02 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 22:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-21 12:09 ` [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-22 0:49 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-23 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 16:55 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 11:18 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 11:38 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 12:36 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 12:49 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-24 13:55 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 14:30 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-04 15:09 ` GSoC ideas Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-05 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 23:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-02-07 5:51 ` Pjotr Prins
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