Hi, Of course, I agree with everything that's said here. That's exactly why I am excited about Guix!
I think it has a sound mechanism to fine-tune the degree of impurity one wishes to accept. What I was thinking was maybe more organizational - is someone coming up to form a group or something š that provides for a compromised (in-terms of accountability and license) yet convenient environment, akin to Ubuntu, using the fine mechanisms mentioned here? It looks like Guix is creating a ripe environment for a service provider to do these things š Cheers, Yasu > On Dec 8, 2020, at 09:51, zimoun <[email protected]> wrote: > ļ»æHi, > >> On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 at 22:55, [email protected] wrote: >> Guix repeats the idea of Nix, but realising it more preciously and >> elegantly. > > The word ārepeatā is incorrect here. It is more appropriated to say: > Guix is based on the idea of Nix or Guix applies similar ideas pioneered > by Nix. > > The divergence is clear enough since the very beginning to not repeat > the confusing / wrong: āGuix is a fork of Nix implemented in Schemeā. > >> It is hard to package some software you like for Guix, > > It depends on how much Love are we ready to put in? :-) > >> but forking guix breaking its elegance for just to install firmware, >> Oracle, Chrome and other stuff is not rational at all, i think. > > The concept of channels avoids to fork and instead allow to extend. It > is possible to extend by adding packages, as the channel guix-past for > instance, or by adding subcommands, as the channel home-manager > illustrates for example. > > >> If you want popular comfortable OS on your home computer, that is not >> idea of Guix. > > Popular is meaningless here. Comfortable, if not then I feel I am > failing and so please point your unpleasant experience and then letās > see how to fix it. :-) > > > All the best, > simon
