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Subject: Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:08:51 +0100
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Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>

Hello,

iyzsong@member.fsf.org (=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6) skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> I=E2=80=99d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get thir=
d-party
>> packages, because we can=E2=80=99t really keep track of packages that we=
re added
>> or redefined in this way.  I want to replace it with slightly more
>> formal =E2=80=9Cchannels=E2=80=9D.
>
> Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it
> sounds more like =E2=80=9Coverlays=E2=80=9D (in Gentoo world) rather than=
 =E2=80=9Cchannels=E2=80=9D (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 =E2=80=9Coverlay=E2=80=9D?

I think =E2=80=9Coverlay=E2=80=9D has the notion that it=E2=80=99s a layer =
on top of another
layer, which is not exactly the case here.  It=E2=80=99s not exactly like w=
hat
Nix channels either, but closer to that, I think.

Ludo=E2=80=99.