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From: David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Scope of support for Guix on other distros
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:18:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix
project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as 
an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros.

The reason I ask is that cross-distro installers are increasingly
popular (for example, Flatpak and Snappy) but none of them (currently)
provide a central repository that is guaranteed free. [1][2] It
occurred to me that Guix could function as an "app store" (repository)
as well as a distro.

As well as supporting the Guix package manager on other distros, I'd
guess this would also require integration with PackageKit / GNOME
Software. [3]

Or is this kind of thinking out-of-scope for the Guix/Guix SD project
as it stands today?

Regards,
David

[1]: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/116
[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapstore/+bug/1720752
[3]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17152

             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-02  9:18 David Seaward [this message]
2017-10-02 14:03 ` Scope of support for Guix on other distros Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-02 15:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-02 16:00   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-02 16:38     ` ng0
2017-10-02 18:52       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-02 19:12         ` ng0
2017-10-03  7:48         ` Tobias Platen
2017-10-03  9:21           ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-03 10:38             ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-03 19:16               ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-04 10:17                 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-03  9:27         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-03 10:02           ` David Seaward
2017-10-03 10:37           ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-04 14:21             ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-05 13:40             ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-07 10:11           ` ng0
2017-10-07 13:22             ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-08 15:22       ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-02 18:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-02 19:30 ` Pjotr Prins

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