From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: AUR for GuixSD Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb0cjrxk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lh1fl4w3.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54040) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMa3N-0000mz-0s for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:11:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMa3I-0002sc-Rv for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:11:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Craven's message of "Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:41:25 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: David Craven Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hello! David Craven skribis: > So how rigid are you on the gnu system thing? Was jookia right that > you won't accept patches that will make guixsd a gnu system or > something else? ;-) As Ricardo wrote, we accept all free software packages. We favor the GNU ones when there=E2=80=99s a choice, which means using them by default in GuixSD. > I did some work on using musl as a libc on nixos for embedded systems, > I came here because I thought it was more hackable. I guess if you're > not interested in uboot, this is a non starter... Again, U-Boot is very welcome. Now, it=E2=80=99s very clear that some packages are trickier than others. What=E2=80=99s tricky with U-Boot is adding support for an alternative bootloader in GuixSD=E2=80=99s machinery, which is currently limited to GRUB (this is what Jookia worked on.) There are non-trivial design choices to make when introducing such changes. Also, from a maintainer=E2=80=99s viewpoint, we must also make sure that the additional feature will be maintainable and maintained. Likewise, let=E2=80=99s say you want to add musl and build all your packages with Clang and musl. Guix provides all the flexibility to do that. However, IMO, Guix as a project should not commit to maintain (and build) this variant of the system, because it would be a lot of extra work. I=E2=80=99d rather have GNU/Linux work well than have the repo conta= in several half-baked experimental systems. I hope this clarifies things! Ludo=E2=80=99.