Re: GSoC news

[Sarthak Shah <shahsarthakw@gmail.com>]

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Hello Guix,

Thanks for having me onboard!
I hope that my project will prove useful to Guix.

My project is about implementing Parameterized Packages, which will add
optional Gentoo USE flag-like functionality to Guix packages. This will not
only help reduce package size but also provide users with greater choice
with how they'd like to use their packages. I believe that this should also
help somewhat relieve the issue of the denseness of guix's dependency
graphs, which was recently being discussed here on the mailing list.

Due to the nature of this project, it will involve taking a lot of inputs
from the Guix community, and thus you can expect a regular thread or two
with updates/feature discussions on this topic in the mailing list.

Once again, thank you for this wonderful opportunity!

Sincerely,
Sarthak (cel7t)

On Fri, 5 May, 2023, 01:29 Pjotr Prins, <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:

> Welcome Sarthak!
>
> On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 09:22:47PM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> >    Hello guix,
> >    We have some news about GSoC, the community is accepting a new intern,
> >    Sarthak. The agreed on internship project title is Parameterized
> >    Packages for GNU Guix. Welcome on board, and we are looking forward to
> >    working together.
> >    As there was quite a lot of competition for places this year we only
> >    got one internship slot assigned, but we are encouraging all
> >    prospective interns to stay around, and try again in the next round.
> >    The distributed substitutes proposals are still on the radar, and  it
> >    would be nice to keep interested people around.
> >    Regards,
> >    g_bor
>
>

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