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From: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
Subject: Re: Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 06:25:43 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> 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=E2=80=99t yet found=
 the time
> to make it happen.  Hopefully soon.

Awesome. Will be a great addition.

>> 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 mom=
ent.
>
> I encourage you to play with Guix.  Packaging is really quite simple in
> most cases.  Certainly not more complicated than writing PKGBUILD files.

That's good to hear. I'll give it a go sometime and shout if I need
help.

Thanks,
--
Best regards,

Divan Santana