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Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros
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Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>
>>> Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't
>>> because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate
>>> the .deb or .rpm from some gexp?
>>
>> I was thinking about adding support for the =E2=80=9Cdeb=E2=80=9D packag=
e format to
>> =E2=80=9Cguix pack=E2=80=9D.  We can already create fat tarballs, so it =
shouldn=E2=80=99t be too
>> much effort to create fat Debian archives.
>
> I think this would be a huge win!

Indeed!  .deb is quite simple:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29>.

It wouldn=E2=80=99t be optimal in that the generated package would be
self-contained: it would bring its own Guile, libgc, etc. instead of
using those of the host distro.  But it does mean that it would work
pretty well.  :-)

Another option would be to make a derivation that runs Checkinstall in a
Debian VM, which would provide a package that=E2=80=99s better integrated w=
ith
Debian, but it=E2=80=99s more tedious.

Ludo=E2=80=99.