Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

[George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>]

This LGTM except ... the first paragraphs (quoted below) are an
advertisement. This is out of place in a tutorial. So, IMO, they should
simply be removed.

> GNU Guix stands out as the *hackable* package manager, mostly because
> it uses [GNU Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/), a powerful
> high-level programming language, one of the
> [Scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language))
> dialects from the [Lisp
> family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)).
>
> Package definitions are also written in Scheme, which empowers Guix in
> some very unique ways, unlike most other package managers that use
> shell scripts or simple languages.
>
> - Use functions, structures, macros and all of Scheme expressiveness
> for your package definitions.
>
> - Inheritance makes it easy to customize a package by inheriting from
> it and modifying only what is needed.
>
> - Batch processing: the whole package collection can be parsed,
> filtered and processed.  Building a headless server with all graphical
> interfaces stripped out?  It's possible.  Want to rebuild everything
> from source using specific compiler optimization flags?  Pass the
> `#:make-flags "..."` argument to the list of packages.  It wouldn't be
> a stretch to think [Gentoo USE
> flags](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag) here, but this goes even
> further: the changes don't have to be thought out beforehand by the
> packager, they can be *programmed* by the user!

If you don't remove them, then at least move the paragraph quoted below
to the top of the piece ...

> The following tutorial covers all the basics around package creation
> with Guix.  It does not assume much knowledge of the Guix system nor
> of the Lisp language.  The reader is only expected to be familiar with
> the command line and to have some basic programming knowledge.

... and preface the above mentioned paragraphs with something like ...

# Guix is a unique approach to package management

HTH - George