Installing Guix on foreign distros

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> So, I talked about this with Stefano Zacchiroli while at FOSDEM.  He
>> suggested that we could do /opt/g/ or something like that and we *could*
>> get Guix in as a package manager to Debian.  Sure, it wouldn't be able
>> to use the Hydra packages, but it's probably okayish.
>
> Unless users get binaries they won't be happy.

+1

>> We could also build apt / rpm packages which we just provide ourselves,
>> on the Guix website, or by providing some PPA'ish thing.  I would have
>> preferred this myself when I started running Debian on Guix... and in
>> this route we could keep everything as it already is.  (But people will
>> have to take an extra step to "get to" those nice packages.)
>
> That looks like the way forward to me. Such a package can setup and
> start the daemon - which is enough. No need to get the blessing from
> the distributions themselves (will take time, but it will come - there
> really is no difference with allowing foreign packages to work anyway).

Yeah, I think you’re right.

There are already people who wrote Arch/Parabola and RPM (openSuSE)
packages, AFAIK.  I’m not sure what the status is?

If someone familiar with dpkg could chime in, we could host the
infrastructure to build the .deb somewhere.

Ludo’.