From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:43:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20160208204350.GA29053@thebird.nl> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160208104530.GA26946@crashnator.suse.cz> <87zivbxggp.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87lh6vx9v0.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsfv-0008GJ-4q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:44:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsfq-0000Sv-4V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:44:47 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:38037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsfp-0000Sh-Un for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:44:42 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lh6vx9v0.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > So, I talked about this with Stefano Zacchiroli while at FOSDEM. He > suggested that we could do /opt/g/ or something like that and we *could* > get Guix in as a package manager to Debian. Sure, it wouldn't be able > to use the Hydra packages, but it's probably okayish. Unless users get binaries they won't be happy. > We could also build apt / rpm packages which we just provide ourselves, > on the Guix website, or by providing some PPA'ish thing. I would have > preferred this myself when I started running Debian on Guix... and in > this route we could keep everything as it already is. (But people will > have to take an extra step to "get to" those nice packages.) That looks like the way forward to me. Such a package can setup and start the daemon - which is enough. No need to get the blessing from the distributions themselves (will take time, but it will come - there really is no difference with allowing foreign packages to work anyway). Pj.