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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 06:36:19PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Well, I began by trying GuixSD, and I haven't installed Guix as a
> package manager on a foreign distro yet. So, people like that (me)
> exist.
> 
> I think it's great that the GuixSD installation media is itself a GuixSD
> image; a good distro ought to be "self-hosting" in that way.
> 
> - Chris

While I like the idea of using Guix to install GuixSD, some poor systems that
tend to come shipped with machines don't and won't support Guix.

Jookia.