Re: Where are suggestions or open discussions of Guix at large made?

[Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>]

Hi,

Of course, I agree with everything that's said here.  That's exactly why I am excited about Guix!   

I think it has a sound mechanism to fine-tune the degree of impurity one wishes to accept.

What I was thinking was maybe more organizational - is someone coming up to form a group or something 😄 that provides for a compromised (in-terms of accountability and license) yet convenient environment, akin to Ubuntu, using the fine mechanisms mentioned here?

It looks like Guix is creating a ripe environment for a service provider to do these things 😄

Cheers,
Yasu


> On Dec 8, 2020, at 09:51, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 at 22:55, znavko@disroot.org wrote:
>> Guix repeats the idea of Nix, but realising it more preciously and
>> elegantly.
> 
> The word “repeat” is incorrect here.  It is more appropriated to say:
> Guix is based on the idea of Nix or Guix applies similar ideas pioneered
> by Nix.
> 
> The divergence is clear enough since the very beginning to not repeat
> the confusing / wrong: “Guix is a fork of Nix implemented in Scheme”.
> 
>> It is hard to package some software you like for Guix,
> 
> It depends on how much Love are we ready to put in? :-)
> 
>> but forking guix breaking its elegance for just to install firmware, 
>> Oracle, Chrome and other stuff is not rational at all, i think.
> 
> The concept of channels avoids to fork and instead allow to extend.  It
> is possible to extend by adding packages, as the channel guix-past for
> instance, or by adding subcommands, as the channel home-manager
> illustrates for example.
> 
> 
>> If you want popular comfortable OS on your home computer, that is not
>> idea of Guix.
> 
> Popular is meaningless here.  Comfortable, if not then I feel I am
> failing and so please point your unpleasant experience and then let’s
> see how to fix it. :-)
> 
> 
> All the best,
> simon