(Stripping Cc.) Shea Levy <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:29:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> • About >> >> GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU system >> distribution. >> >> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports >> transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package >> management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses >> low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme >> programming interfaces. >> >> At this stage Guix can be used on top of an i686, x86_64, or mips64el >> GNU/Linux system, or in a virtual machine. Future versions will >> stand alone. >> > > My brain keeps parsing this as "guix will run on bare metal", what does > stand alone mean here? It means there’ll be a standalone distro, like NixOS. I suppose the wording could be improved. >> • Changes since version 0.5 (excerpt from the NEWS file) >> >> ** Package management >> *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store >> > > What was the motivation behind this change? Marketing of course! ;-) For newcomers it may clarify the fact that it’s a distro different from Nixpkgs, with different goals. Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
