From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: guix packages Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:02:30 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLSkz-0003ve-PJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:02:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLSkz-0007va-3V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:02:33 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::22d]:47634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XLSky-0007sn-Rs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:02:33 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f173.google.com with SMTP id u10so10987736lbd.4 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 01:02:30 -0700 (PDT) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hallo, I've just discovered guix and have a question: Given that guix is based on nix and currently nix has many more packages available than guix, is there (or is it planned to have) an automated procedure for porting nix packages to guix? (Actually a bidirectional procedure would be interesting.) If not, what is the main reason against that? If the problem has to do with licenses, is it not enough to check the license declared withing the package "recipe"? Regards, Fede