Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

Marek Paśnikowski <marek@marekpasnikowski.pl> writes:
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
>> Guix is all about packages, therefore it is a package manager.  I
>> believe the shell and container and system, home support are still about
>> packages.  Despite other package managers not doing it.
> If I may, I would like to interject with my own thought here — I have
> come to understand Guix as a service manager.  This is because packages
> are objects of a profile service, one of many services declarable with
> Guix.  As a result of this understanding, I stopped using the 'packages'
> fields of operating-system and home-environment, preferring to declare
> the packages in profile services' extensions.

Interesting.  Yes, in Guix System and Guix Home, we can view packages as
objects of services, but not in the rest of Guix.  The term “Package
manager” is more encompassing.

Regards,
Florian