Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > > Sorry, I was unclear. 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.
I strongly agree with this. To my mind this is the key selling point of Guix and we need to make it easy to experience this. But you know, given how well the Guix Binary install + a lame makefile has worked to install/uninstall on my Debian servers, and the way Guix kind of includes it's own world, I'm not so sure a .deb package necessary. > The gexp part was because of the gexp that (iirc) generates the "tarball > install" method of things as inspiration... could we build something > similar that builds a .deb or .rpm of Guix as an install method? > > - Chris Maybe a downloadable install package that does a binary install and is routinely verified to run on 3 or 4 popular distros is just as good and has more band for the buck. Anyway, reading your comments and a couple other recent GSoC GuixSD installer proposals prompted me to write some general thoughts about Guix installation which you might find interesting: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg01024.html Best - George
