From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Lightning talk at Dconf Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:50:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3elcd4k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160404092409.GA29461@thebird.nl> 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]:39177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBS5-0000Ne-6Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:50:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBS2-0007ak-0m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:50:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160404092409.GA29461@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:24:09 +0200") 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins skribis: > I am giving a lightning talk about GNU Guix at Dconf (Berlin, May 4-6): > > http://dconf.org/2016/schedule/ > > As is the case with most programming languages, D is struggling with a > packaging system (dub, see http://code.dlang.org/) and I want to > explain why a simple $HOME packaging system will do fine when more > complex deployments are handled by GNU Guix. In other words, keep it > simple and leave the complex stuff to Guix. > > There is also a Birds of a Feather session on 'Building and Packaging > Systems' > > http://dconf.org/2016/talks/bof.html Neat! Make sure to spread the word on the perils of the proliferation of language-specific package managers, among other things. ;-) Ludo=E2=80=99.