I think guix can be used for more than just packages. When you say documentation, what comes to mind is package documentation, but we also have man-pages, which contains no programs, only… well… man pages :). We also have sicp that contains only a book.

With cross-compilation, it shouldn't be too hard to build something for an embedded system, though that's still something that needg to be demonstrated I think.

Le 10 décembre 2021 08:00:23 GMT-05:00, Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io> a écrit :
>Could Guix be used for packages that do not strictly contain 
>operating system software?
>
>For example, could Guix be used for packages of embedded code and 
>their dependencies to be run on a little RTOS, like Zephyr, or 
>bare metal, like Arduino or PlatformIO libraries?
>
>Could it be used for hardware, like a Kicad pcb package that 
>depends on component and footprint packages, or packages of 
>FreeCAD mechanical assemblies that depend on part packages?
>
>Can Guix packages be used for documentation and other data?
>
>Or are all of these types of packages way outside the scope of 
>Guix? Although it could still be used for the operating system 
>software development environments for these types of projects, it 
>might be very powerful to package other types of code and data as 
>well.
>