Hi Luis! Luis Felipe <luis.felipe...@protonmail.com> skribis:
> Are all these constants (%base-packages, for example)? Is this a Guix > convention or does it come from Guile? To complement Leo’s answer… The ‘%’ convention comes from Guile, which may have borrowed it from other Schemes. Initially, it was meant to read as “sys” (“system”), as can be seen in libguile, meaning that a percent-binding somehow belongs to “the system”: ‘%load-path’, ‘%make-void-port’, ‘%load-hook’, etc. In Guix it’s used with an extending meaning, typically for variables holding Guixy constants: ‘%base-packages’, ‘%setuid-programs’, ‘%desktop-services’, etc. I hope it makes some sense! Ludo’.
