From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:00:24 +0200 Message-ID: <874mb4xh07.fsf@gnu.org> References: <570FA064.5050406@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqkd7-0003Ig-Lq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:00:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqkd3-0001RK-RG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:00:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:28:49 +0200") 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" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Could we add the .spec, PKGBUILD, and debian files to the Guix > repository? I know of many projects that include the package manifests > to simplify building packages for major distributions. > > An advantage would be that we knew about these files and users wouldn=E2= =80=99t > have to search around for the latest package sources. If we are able to generate deb and rpm files from the Guix package definition without too much burden, I think it is a good idea. However having a "debian" directory + a spec file + .... will require additional maintenance efforts and an extra layer of =E2=80=9Cnoise=E2=80= =9D in the repository that seems undesirable to me. --=20 Mathieu Lirzin