From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:30:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9hhsk23.fsf@gnu.org> References: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> 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]:32909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTEw0-0008Lt-J8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:30:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTEvz-0004Z8-Jw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:30:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:03:13 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'" Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I=E2=80=99d also like to point you at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01161771/e= n, in > case you haven=E2=80=99t read it yet. It includes a very general compari= son > with tools like environment modules, spack, and easyBuild with a focus > on reproducibility. One of the things that has changed since this paper is the new --input flag which allows you, from the command-line, to rewrite the dependency tree of a package by replacing one package with another one (something that=E2=80=99s relatively easy to do programmatically, but Spack showed that it=E2=80=99s occasionally convenient to have it at the command line.) Ludo=E2=80=99.