Re: On the quest for a new release model

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> can we strip away almost all of the packages and still have a minimal
> bootable system?  If we minimize that set of really-core packages,
> maybe there can be one team that works on this minimal bootable OS and
> produce stable images that are fast to update.  If people want to add
> more packages, there is always the current "fat" rolling Guix git
> repository that you can add on top of the small base OS.

I proposed something similar some weeks ago [1].  Specifically,
splitting Guix's monolithic repository into at least two different
channels (perhaps more).  These channels would be included in
%default-channels, however, the main Guix repository would only include
the packages from Ring-0 and Ring-1 (taking inspiration from OpenSUSE)
[2]:

#+begin_quote
  The core of Factory is divided into two rings (0-Bootstrap,
  1-MinimalX). Ring 0 contains packages that form the most basic,
  minimalist system that can compile itself. On top of that Ring 1 adds
  what's in the default installation of the two primary Desktops. All
  other packages are not part of a ring.
#+end_quote

[1]: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87plnm6cnj.fsf@gmail.com/>
[2]: <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_development_model#Submit_requests_to_Ring_0_and_Ring_1>

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Suhail