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 21:27:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87pow5sk84.fsf@gnu.org> References: <953f16876af34ea59b526b7f35482e72@exchsrv2.sgc.loc> <20160209195437.GB6122@jasmine> 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]:59942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTEsd-0007v4-51 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:27:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTEsZ-0003df-WF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:27:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160209195437.GB6122@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:54:37 -0500") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'" Leo Famulari skribis: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>=20 >> Cook, Malcolm writes: >> > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all >> > community members. >>=20 >> It=E2=80=99s free software ;) >>=20 >> Maybe it=E2=80=99s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on = Guix >> upstream to add packages. It is trivial to use custom packages with >> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. > > It can't be overstated *how* trivial it is. I've found that users of > mutable-state package managers just don't believe me when I tell them. > It's even easy to have out-of-tree packages, pulled in with > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, that depend on in-tree packages or package updates > that you haven't upstreamed yet. I=E2=80=99ve been thinking that we should add a =E2=80=9CDefining Package V= ariants=E2=80=9D section beneath or after the =E2=80=9CDefining Packages=E2=80=9D node in th= e manual, showing how to =E2=80=98inherit=E2=80=99 from an existing package, etc. Any takers? :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.