From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Seaward Subject: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:18:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dywrn-0002HQ-JV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:18:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dywrj-0003Lr-Jx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:18:23 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::234]:49893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dywrj-0003Kh-DG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:18:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x234.google.com with SMTP id b189so5384478wmd.4 for ; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 02:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosalindfranklin (169-0-65-51.ip.afrihost.co.za. [169.0.65.51]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id j62sm865420edd.62.2017.10.02.02.18.14 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Oct 2017 02:18:16 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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