From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me
Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 09:31:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inyquxwa.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737punbbk.fsf@santanas.co.za>
Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za> writes:
> 1) virt-manager - Since I may rely on a few VMs more as GuixSD has
> limited packages for now. Unless there is another easy way to run VMs?
> I'm not too familar with using qemu directly...
virt-manager is on my list of packages, but I haven’t yet found the time
to make it happen. Hopefully soon.
> For the most part is seems almost all the essentials for me are there.
>
> Excited to see the progress with the distro. Wish you all the best of
> luck and hope one day in the future to get involved - can't at the moment.
I encourage you to play with Guix. Packaging is really quite simple in
most cases. Certainly not more complicated than writing PKGBUILD files.
Note that you can also run Guix as a package manager on top of your
current GNU system.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-07 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-06 21:09 Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me Divan Santana
2016-05-07 7:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-05-11 4:25 ` Divan Santana
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