On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote:
Brandon Invergo bran...@invergo.net skribis:
I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a
functional package manager and associated free software distribution of
the GNU system.
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There’s also
Hi,
Adam Spiers g...@adamspiers.org skribis:
So you should probably not worry too much about any overlap with Guix,
although it *may* be instructive to consider the fundamental design
differences between a symlink-based approach and one which does not
rely on symlinks.
Note that Nix Guix
Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
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Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
(dotfiles) so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
need into their proper
Adam Sampson a...@offog.org skribis:
Something like Guix is the right way to go if you're designing a new
system from scratch, but Stow is very effective for simple package
management inside an existing system.
Agreed. Stow is a lightweight tool that certainly has its use in some
contexts.
