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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
>
>> Very nice. GNU Guix out of a box. No more installation pain.=20
>>
>> The tar-ball should go in the standard download directory. I would
>> name the tar ball with something 'binary', maybe add the supported
>> Linux versions (3.x?) and the architecture in the name. Just to be
>> complete. There may be other editions later.
>
> Yes, something like guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64.tar.gz?
>
> I guess we=E2=80=99ll publish it for the next release.

Thank you very much for this!

Could we add a package to Guix to build this?  If that is undesirable
for some reason, could we add a command to build it, and jobs on Hydra
to build it automatically on all platforms supported by the build farm,
analogous to the 'usb-image' jobs?

      Mark