From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:37:35 -0500 Message-ID: <87h8vg34b4.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> <9f2ed1cd-f7df-1a8f-8789-15bc53e46233@fastmail.net> <87tvzh5ylu.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20171002163817.bypveuihimo5akw2@abyayala> <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87bmlo4m3w.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKa3-0007bV-Qp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:37:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKa3-0001Wc-2s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:37:39 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:44556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKa2-0001Uk-VX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:37:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bmlo4m3w.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, David Seaward Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher Allan Webber 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 packa= ge 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!