Op Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:30:21 -0500 schreef Felipe Lopez <[email protected]>:
> What do gNewSense users and developers think about GNU Guix? Should > we go for gNewSense 4 or should we go for GNU Guix 1.0? I had some time to watch Ludovic's presentation. It does seem like the ultimate GNU distro, in principle. The team has come a long way in a short time, but the package count is still relatively low. Also, the young package manager, new init system, uncommon file system, potential (temporary) dependency hell as the list of packages and versions grow, not much attention for security (yet, afaict), aversion of patches (possibly hindering integration) and the lack of post-install scripts (I'm not sure yet how their alternative works) makes it very interesting to hack on, but still a way off from being a distro that grandma can use on her Yeeloong. My understanding is that Guix is not just a package manager, but also provides/needs its own operating system. So it probably can't be used with gNewSense as an addition to apt to allow users to install GNU packages in their home directories. I think that at this moment both gNewSense en Guix are worthwile projects to work on. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
