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Subject: Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels
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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> I=E2=80=99d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get third=
-party
> packages, because we can=E2=80=99t really keep track of packages that wer=
e added
> or redefined in this way.  I want to replace it with slightly more
> formal =E2=80=9Cchannels=E2=80=9D.

Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it
sounds more like =E2=80=9Coverlays=E2=80=9D (in Gentoo world) rather than =
=E2=80=9Cchannels=E2=80=9D (in
Nix world, to ensure binaries availability and updates stability) to me.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
https://nixos.org/nix/manual/index.html#sec-channels

How about call it as =E2=80=9Coverlay=E2=80=9D?