Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?

[Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> Guix is a GNU/Linux distribution, designed for building packages.

There are 2 concepts.

Guix is a package manager, that can be used on top of an existing
GNU/Linux distribution.
The full Guix System is a complete GNU/Linux distro, based on the Guix
package manager.


>
> The task here is to distribute Info manuals in a few
> platform-independent non-source forms, perhaps Info and HTML.  Perhaps
> PDF files too.  That is so much simpler than what Guix has to do that
> using Guix for this would be a quick and dirty hack.

The Guix package management system could be easy to use for users, and could be a
way to distribute Info manuals, on top of all GNU/Linux distributions.

>
> The task here can be done with something much simpler, and if we
> decide to do it, writing a clean solution won't take very long.
> And it will be simpler to understand than Guix.