Re: GSoC ideas

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:45:30 +0100
Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >Maybe we should have a place to collect ideas?
> >
> >Anyway, here would be my top items for GSoC:
> >
> > - An installer wizard (written in Guile of course!)
> > - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for
> >   .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian
> >   and Fedora  
> 
> What would be purpose of that? Do you plan to use some other store path so it
> won't collide with Guix maintained installation on the same machine?
> 
> OTOH it may be interesting to generate only (in my case) RPM metadata
> so native system's package manager can track Guix generated files and
> use pre/post install scripts for interactions with Guix (to
> install/remove/protect them). That would glue Guix to system even
> better. Just wild idea when thinking about your idea...
> 
> S_W

like checkinstall? It would be nice if a foreign distro to have graphical
programs just work, integrated into the system like their own native programs.

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