From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:08:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lnb2vt8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv19ozgl.fsf@member.fsf.org> ("宋文武"'s message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:45:30 +0800")
Hello,
iyzsong@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> I’d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get third-party
>> packages, because we can’t really keep track of packages that were added
>> or redefined in this way. I want to replace it with slightly more
>> formal “channels”.
>
> Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it
> sounds more like “overlays” (in Gentoo world) rather than “channels” (in
> Nix world, to ensure binaries availability and updates stability) to me.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
> https://nixos.org/nix/manual/index.html#sec-channels
>
> How about call it as “overlay”?
I think “overlay” has the notion that it’s a layer on top of another
layer, which is not exactly the case here. It’s not exactly like what
Nix channels either, but closer to that, I think.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-24 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-19 8:24 [RFC] A simple draft for channels Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-19 8:55 ` Jelle Licht
2018-01-19 11:30 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-19 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-19 13:56 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23 6:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23 8:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23 23:01 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-01-23 16:03 ` myglc2
2018-01-23 16:50 ` ng0
2018-01-24 5:44 ` myglc2
2018-01-24 12:33 ` ng0
2018-01-24 15:04 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-01-23 20:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23 20:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 12:01 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-20 5:45 ` 宋文武
2018-01-24 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-24 17:55 ` myglc2
2018-01-24 18:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-26 17:23 ` myglc2
2018-01-26 18:53 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19 12:46 ` ng0
2018-01-27 12:10 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-19 12:04 ` [Orchestration][RFC] " Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 12:36 ` ng0
2018-03-19 18:21 ` myglc2
2018-03-19 18:31 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 20:18 ` myglc2
2018-03-19 20:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 7:02 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 10:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-20 13:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 13:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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