Hi, Adam Spiers <g...@adamspiers.org> skribis:
> Thanks for the info. I expect that by far the most common FAQ arising > when people see this project for the first time is what it offers over > existing package managers out there, in particular rpm and apt which > are presumably the most popular by quite some margin. I thought this sentence on the home page would address it: In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. But apparently it may not be catchy enough. ;-) > To pre-empt this FAQ, I strongly recommend answering this on the home > page in a TL;DR manner which doesn't require busy people to spend 20 > minutes watching a video. The first step would be to add a link to > those slides, but it would be a lot better to include a short section > of text which summarises the motivation for writing Guix. You could > think of this text as the "sales pitch" for getting more hackers > involved. Sure. Actually the web page is just a few hours old (thanks to Jason Self!). I would definitely welcome any suggestions and patches to make it clearer and more attractive. Would you like to join? :-) Of course, the home page of Nix at <http://nixos.org/nix/> presents these ideas in a structured and detailed manner. Thanks, Ludo’.
