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From: iyzsong@member.fsf.org (宋文武)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:45:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv19ozgl.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmhq6ytg.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:24:27 +0100")

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> I’d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get third-party
> packages, because we can’t really keep track of packages that were added
> or redefined in this way.  I want to replace it with slightly more
> formal “channels”.

Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it
sounds more like “overlays” (in Gentoo world) rather than “channels” (in
Nix world, to ensure binaries availability and updates stability) to me.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
https://nixos.org/nix/manual/index.html#sec-channels

How about call it as “overlay”?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-20  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-19  8:24 [RFC] A simple draft for channels Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-19  8:55 ` Jelle Licht
2018-01-19 11:30 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-19 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-19 13:56   ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23  6:38     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23  8:54       ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-23 23:01         ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-01-23 16:03   ` myglc2
2018-01-23 16:50     ` ng0
2018-01-24  5:44       ` myglc2
2018-01-24 12:33         ` ng0
2018-01-24 15:04           ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-01-23 20:39     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-23 20:37   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 12:01     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-20  5:45 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2018-01-24 14:08   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-24 17:55     ` myglc2
2018-01-24 18:20       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-26 17:23         ` myglc2
2018-01-26 18:53           ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19 12:46         ` ng0
2018-01-27 12:10 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-19 12:04   ` [Orchestration][RFC] " Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 12:36     ` ng0
2018-03-19 18:21     ` myglc2
2018-03-19 18:31       ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-19 20:18         ` myglc2
2018-03-19 20:29           ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20  7:02     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 10:41       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-20 13:10         ` Pjotr Prins
2018-03-20 13:41           ` Ricardo Wurmus

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