From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix under GNU???s umbrella for GSoC? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:44:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2irtn9y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8738joyt06.fsf@gnu.org> <20140213052635.GB29097@thebird.nl> 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]:59639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDruK-0004iG-IQ for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:44:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDruF-0003nC-K8 for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:44:32 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:44308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDruF-0003m4-Cn for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:44:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140213052635.GB29097@thebird.nl> (pjotr's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2014 06:26:35 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: pjotr.public12@thebird.nl Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org pjotr.public12@thebird.nl skribis: > How good is user space support for Guix? Guix is a purely user-space thing: a package manager, and a distribution of user-space programs. It requires to have the daemon running as root (see ), and then Guix tools connect to it. > I haven't gotten down to trying yet, but that is on my list. If that > works I could think of many applications (Python/Ruby modules, vim > modules, etc.). Or are we forced to have a server running? Adding packages is always welcome, yes! I don=E2=80=99t think that would suffice as a GSoC project though. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.