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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 2.02 X-Spam-Score: 2.02 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: CB2751E632 X-TUID: DpaB4EvhjPY7 Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Guix is a GNU/Linux distribution, designed for building packages. There are 2 concepts. Guix is a package manager, that can be used on top of an existing GNU/Linux distribution. The full Guix System is a complete GNU/Linux distro, based on the Guix package manager. > > The task here is to distribute Info manuals in a few > platform-independent non-source forms, perhaps Info and HTML. Perhaps > PDF files too. That is so much simpler than what Guix has to do that > using Guix for this would be a quick and dirty hack. The Guix package management system could be easy to use for users, and could be a way to distribute Info manuals, on top of all GNU/Linux distributions. > > The task here can be done with something much simpler, and if we > decide to do it, writing a clean solution won't take very long. > And it will be simpler to understand than Guix.