Héllo,


What about the possiblity to use overlays ?


2013/8/29 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

> Hello!
>
> So, what do we put in 0.4, and when do we release it?
>
> First, I’d like to release 0.4 by (or on) GNU’s 30th birthday, which is
> on Sep. 28th [0].  On the 28th, I’d also like to have a bootable QEMU
> image built with Guix, featuring at least the init system (dmd), a
> console login, and bare utilities.
>
> What I would really like to see in 0.4:
>
>   • Guix must be usable with the old Guile 2.0.5, since that’s what some
>     distros provide.  At the GHM I realized that some people had weird
>     bugs with that Guile, notably in the substituter.  I fixed a couple
>     of bugs, but there may be others around.
>
>     So, to 2.0.5 users: please run ‘make check’, use Guix and in
>     particular the substituter, and report bugs!
>
>   • Packages: as already discussed, more packages, anything that makes
>     the distro more useful (having Git is a must.)
>     A package a day keeps the competition away.  ;-)
>
>   • Core updates: in particular libc 2.18.  Possibly switch to GCC 4.8
>     as the default compiler.
>
>   • APIs: new or extended APIs for building stand-alone images.  I’ve
>     been looking into that recently, notably with the initrd stuff.
>
>   • New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for
>     ‘guix package’.
>
>   • Manual: improve as we see fit; notably add a section on font usage
>     for X applications.
>
> Optional goals:
>
>   • MIPS64/N64 support: the bootstrap tarballs are now all available
>     through cross-compilation from x86_64, so it’s “just” a matter of
>     feeding them in bootstrap.scm and trying out.
>
>   • Rebuilt bootstrap binaries (aka. the “Fixed Point Project”, more on
>     that later.)
>
>   • Python 3, and related packaging changes.
>
> Anything else?
>
> What do people think?
>
> Ludo’.
>
> [0] https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/
>