From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:38:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fub03499.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8vgegdr.fsf@netris.org>
Mark H Weaver writes:
> Tobias Platen <trisquel@platen-software.de> writes:
>
>> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> Debian also includes GNUstep which lives in /usr/gnustep. Maybe /gnu
>> could be moves to /usr/gnu on Debian.
>
> All of our binary substitutes are built with a store prefix of /gnu.
> Using a different store prefix requires bootstrapping the entire system
> from source code, once per core-updates cycle, and also doing frequent
> rebuilds of upper layers of the stack to keep up with the updates on our
> master branch. Most users won't want to do this.
I still think a hilarious option would be to "graft" every output to
/usr/gnu or /opt/gnu but I think nobody else is on board with this ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-02 9:18 Scope of support for Guix on other distros David Seaward
2017-10-02 14:03 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-02 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-02 16:00 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-02 16:38 ` ng0
2017-10-02 18:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-02 19:12 ` ng0
2017-10-03 7:48 ` Tobias Platen
2017-10-03 9:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-03 10:38 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-10-03 19:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-04 10:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-03 9:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-03 10:02 ` David Seaward
2017-10-03 10:37 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-04 14:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-05 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-07 10:11 ` ng0
2017-10-07 13:22 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-08 15:22 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-02 18:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-02 19:30 ` Pjotr Prins
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