From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: Guix package in Nix Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:54:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb4dr2vj.fsf@igalia.com> References: <20160322221827.GA18812@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aieYT-000753-M9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:54:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aieYP-0000pa-CB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:54:17 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl0.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:61523 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aieYP-0000pL-7z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:54:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160322221827.GA18812@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:18:27 -0400") 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 On Tue 22 Mar 2016 23:18, Leo Famulari writes: > The Guix package in Nix [0] is still on version 0.3 and it is failing to > build from source. > > Does anybody want to take it over? > > From #guix: > anyone that wants to maintain guix in nixpkgs? > domenkozar: I see the Nix package is very out of date. I do see > that it shares the Nix store. > lfam: yeah and it's failing to compile Surely it should just be removed. The binary install is easy enough for someone already running Nix. Andy, writing on a NixOS system which also runs Guix