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To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Christopher Allan Webber
<cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> What I'm talking about is Guix *as a package
> manager* to be able to be available on foreigh distros so I can
> encourage friends to do:
>
>   apt-get install guix
>
> ... and then do user-space hacking with Guix, and use "guix environment"
> for hacking on my projects...  I think we'd increase our userbase
> dramatically by getting Guix as a user-space pacakge manager into
> various distros.

Such packages would be convenient for users of these distros, but
getting them into Debian and Fedora proper is unlikely because Guix
does not conform to the FHS.

- Dave