From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 21:30:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20171002193018.GB11993@thebird.nl> References: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz6RT-0007p3-Vr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:31:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz6RP-0007ZX-06 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:31:51 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:51340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz6RO-0007Y0-Pe for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:31:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> 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: David Seaward Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi David, On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:18:12AM +0200, David Seaward wrote: > 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. Some deja vu ;). And if they don't have the isolation that Guix has these package managers will break. They all do. > As well as supporting the Guix package manager on other distros, I'd > guess this would also require integration with PackageKit / GNOME > Software. [3] It would only take Debian to accept Guix as a first class citizen. Less odd then it looks, because they also allow cpan and what not. But, so far, they have rejected inclusion of the Guix package manager. > Or is this kind of thinking out-of-scope for the Guix/Guix SD project > as it stands today? Guix works perfectly as a package manager on another distro, as long as you have root. Many people do that here. I agree that we could present that better to the outside world. Pj.