From: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@h-brs.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best base system for Guix
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:47:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fss2q2o7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1bnx8j1.fsf@condor.l7> (Alexander Asteroth's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:59:30 +0100")
Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@h-brs.de> writes:
> of course the optimum is probably a pure native Guix system. But if this
> is not possible, what system forms the best base for Guix. I've tried
> arch and debian 11 and noticed that the packages available in Guix under
> arch are way more recent (e.g icecat 91 vs 6x) and more in general.
I don't see how the base system could influence Guix's package
availability.
Things that might differ from one base system to the other are some
default configurations (environment variables, etc). For example, a
friend of mine tried to use Guix on top of Ubuntu and there was a big
mess concerning XDG_* environment variables and the X window system (I
don't remember the details).
If you're curious about Guix, I strongly advice using the whole system.
The community, afaik, doesn't put too much effort in making sure that it
works flawlessly out-of-the-box for all systems, since there other
priorities. Regardless, the community would be happy to accommodate any
contribution in that direction.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-11 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-11 10:59 Best base system for Guix Alexander Asteroth
2021-11-11 11:45 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-11-11 12:16 ` Alexander Asteroth
2021-11-11 12:47 ` André A. Gomes [this message]
2021-11-11 17:48 ` Alexander Asteroth
2021-11-11 20:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-12 15:16 ` Alexander Asteroth
2021-11-12 16:48 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-12 18:21 ` Alexander Asteroth
2021-11-13 7:10 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-15 16:19 ` zimoun
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