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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: Building "special" binary bundles (i.e. not using guix pack)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 11:20:58 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:53 AM Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
>
> Sure, I could just grab a bunch of pre-built stuff from Debian's
> repositories and stuff it in a tarball, but I want to use Guix in
> order to have a reproducible toolchain and because this bundle will
> include several Guile libraries that would be a pain to build without
> Guix.  I want to be able to say "Here, use this convenient binary
> bundle.  If you're curious what's   Furthermore, I really want to see
> Guix fill this particular niche because it could lead to an
> Appimage-like feature in Guix itself.

Oops!  Looks like I accidentally deleted some text here.  The part in
quotes should read:

"Here, use this convenient binary bundle.  If you're curious what's
inside and how it is made, here is the code used to build it."

Yours in neverending typos,

- Dave