From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Lightning talk at Dconf Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:28:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20160404192848.GA32523@thebird.nl> References: <20160404092409.GA29461@thebird.nl> <20160404190351.GA22737@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anACr-000198-M9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:30:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anACm-0004Rw-Rg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:30:37 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:33965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anACm-0004R0-Lz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:30:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160404190351.GA22737@debian-netbook> 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: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:03:51PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:24:09AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > I am giving a lightning talk about GNU Guix at Dconf (Berlin, May 4-6): > > > > http://dconf.org/2016/schedule/ > > > > As is the case with most programming languages, D is struggling with a > > packaging system (dub, see http://code.dlang.org/) and I want to > > explain why a simple $HOME packaging system will do fine when more > > complex deployments are handled by GNU Guix. In other words, keep it > > simple and leave the complex stuff to Guix. > > > > There is also a Birds of a Feather session on 'Building and Packaging > > Systems' > > > > http://dconf.org/2016/talks/bof.html > > > > Pj. > > > > What language will it be in? en_GB.utf8 > Any chance it'll be recorded? Yes. And slides. > Keep us updated! :) Pj.