From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:03:44 +0100
Message-ID: <87y38qy8e7.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <875zw6h9aq.fsf@gnu.org>
	<20181210040236.3y3dwphonsxpyjme@thebird.nl> <87a7l876l7.fsf@gnu.org>
	<87sgz0fb3f.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53924)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <ludo@gnu.org>) id 1gYEX1-0001ZA-Pc
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:19:20 -0500
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <ludo@gnu.org>) id 1gYEHy-0007IS-1P
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:03:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <87sgz0fb3f.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (Giovanni Biscuolo's
	message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:15:48 +0100")
List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
	<guix-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/>
List-Post: <mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "Guix-devel" <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org

Hello,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
>>
>>> Yesterday I gave a passionate 'I love Guix' lightning talk about Guix
>>> packages at the biohackathon in Japan. Many people after approached me
>>> and said that the website is confusing them because it looks like it
>>> is promoting a Linux distribution... I know this is an old topic, but
>>> it would be nice if we found a way to promote Guix packaging as it
>>> works so well outside GuixSD.
>>
>> Yes, that should be a nice side-effect of calling everything =E2=80=9CGu=
ix=E2=80=9D.
>
> does this mean that "guix system" is capable of
> instantiating/reconfiguring an operating-system declaration (services
> included) even outside GuixSD?
>
> AFAIK for this we need Sheperd as PID 1 and I do not know how I can get
> it on a systemd based (or any other different PID 1) distro

The only thing that doesn=E2=80=99t work on a foreign distro is =E2=80=98gu=
ix system
reconfigure=E2=80=99, understandably.  The rest works exactly the same way.

Ludo=E2=80=99.