On Jun 16, 2015 10:27 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> While looking at another package manager for ideas to steal, I found
> this one to be a good candidate:
>
>   guix edit gcc-4.8

Looks familiar. OSX Homebrew? Anyway, it's an awesome idea and deserves
being stolen.

> For “regular users,” it’s less useful because most of the time it will
> open an immutable file.  However, I envision a --clone option that would
> create a file with a module declaration and a template like:
>
>   (define my-gcc
>     (package (inherit gcc)
>       ;; Complete here...
>       )
>
> (This part is left as an exercise to the reader.)

Coupled with some user-specific default path for guix definitions?