From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Helm System Packages: New support for Guix Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:02:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh86wu84.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874lkn2c9v.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:57994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4vuz-0006CQ-HR for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 18:02:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4vuw-0002Wr-EQ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 18:02:41 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:52358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4vuw-0002WK-7Z for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 18:02:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874lkn2c9v.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:18:28 +0530") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > [[https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-system-packages][Helm System Package= s]] is an > interface to your system package managers. > > Highlights: > > - Helm "live" search of all packages. > - Install / Uninstall a bunch of packages at once. > - Explore dependencies recursively from the same Helm buffer. > - Navigate the package files with Helm. > - TRAMP support (it should work over the network). Interesting! Does it support the notion of non-root installs, per-user profiles, and arbitrary profiles for Guix? I=E2=80=99m asking because that=E2=80=99s a significant difference between = Guix and the other supported package managers. PackageKit, for instance, provides a package management abstraction that=E2=80=99s biased towards =E2=80=9Ctradi= tional=E2=80=9D package managers and is inadequate for Guix. > The overlap with guix.el is obvious, but I believe it makes the user > experience a little smoother when it comes to common tasks. You chose to interface with the command line. I suppose this creates less friction for an initial install compared to using Geiser and the Scheme APIs of Guix, but that=E2=80=99s probably at the expense of expressi= ve power and control (I really like the rich interface that guix.el is able to provide with this approach). Anyway, cool stuff! Now you need to make a package for it. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.