Hi! [email protected] skribis:
> I know that rolling release distros don't have to have the latest packages > but this is not the best representation of Guix, especially when our friend > NixOS claims they have the largest and most updated package collection > [https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nixos-22.05]. Guix is *potentially* even more up-to-date than NixOS thanks to ‘--with-latest’ and ‘--with-branch’! \o/ https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html Seriously though, we could take better advantage of the tooling that we have: ‘guix refresh’, ‘guix graph’, and the corresponding APIs. With that, we can write code that automatically tries out package updates and prepares patches, for instance. We could even largely automate “update trains” (what we’re doing with master/staging/core-updates). Ideas for a motivated hacker! Ludo’.
