Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > Am Dienstag, 20. August 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> If you’ve missed it, the Aug. 1st edition of Linux Weekly News (LWN) had >> an article about Guix: https://lwn.net/Articles/560760/ . > > Thanks for the link! > >> It’s well written and conveys the important ideas, though there are a >> couple of misunderstandings > > Rather annoying is the misunderstanding in: "For example, Guix's package > store model works by linking a single directory in the system-wide store to > a directory in the user's profile. This assumes that a package only > installs files to one location, which is often not the case. Packages that > install content in multiple output directories (e.g., /usr/bin and > /usr/share/doc) are split up into separate pieces for Guix, so the GNU > Distribution's glib package contains the Glibc binaries, while glib:doc > contains its corresponding documentation." > > Each file is symlinked separately, and splitting into several packages is > just an option (like in this case to avoid that a user needs to install > heavy documentation).
Yeah, indeed. Ludo’.
