From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: "Marek Paśnikowski" <marek@marekpasnikowski.pl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:09:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le19ske3.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87le193kx7.fsf@marekpasnikowski.pl> ("Marek Paśnikowski"'s message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:17:24 +0200")
Marek Paśnikowski <marek@marekpasnikowski.pl> writes:
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
>> Guix is all about packages, therefore it is a package manager. I
>> believe the shell and container and system, home support are still about
>> packages. Despite other package managers not doing it.
> If I may, I would like to interject with my own thought here — I have
> come to understand Guix as a service manager. This is because packages
> are objects of a profile service, one of many services declarable with
> Guix. As a result of this understanding, I stopped using the 'packages'
> fields of operating-system and home-environment, preferring to declare
> the packages in profile services' extensions.
Interesting. Yes, in Guix System and Guix Home, we can view packages as
objects of services, but not in the rest of Guix. The term “Package
manager” is more encompassing.
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-06 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-12 0:15 Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01) Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 1:54 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-10-12 21:23 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-13 7:24 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 8:07 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 21:52 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 12:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-12 16:58 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-12 22:32 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-12 20:30 ` pinoaffe
2023-11-01 16:01 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-02 13:18 ` pinoaffe
2023-10-13 9:41 ` Wilko Meyer
2023-10-15 13:11 ` Luis Felipe
2023-10-26 15:07 ` Luis Felipe
2023-11-16 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-07-26 23:18 ` Luis Felipe
2024-08-06 10:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-08-06 12:17 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-06 16:09 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2024-08-12 14:47 ` Luis Felipe
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87le19ske3.fsf@pelzflorian.de \
--to=pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de \
--cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=marek@marekpasnikowski.pl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).