Sam, what presentation are you referring to...? On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Op Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:30:21 -0500 > schreef Felipe Lopez <felipe.lo...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>: > > > What do gNewSense users and developers think about GNU Guix? Should > > we go for gNewSense 4 or should we go for GNU Guix 1.0? > > I had some time to watch Ludovic's presentation. It does seem like the > ultimate GNU distro, in principle. The team has come a long way in a > short time, but the package count is still relatively low. Also, the > young package manager, new init system, uncommon file system, potential > (temporary) dependency hell as the list of packages and versions grow, > not much attention for security (yet, afaict), aversion of patches > (possibly hindering integration) and the lack of post-install scripts > (I'm not sure yet how their alternative works) makes it very > interesting to hack on, but still a way off from being a distro that > grandma can use on her Yeeloong. > > My understanding is that Guix is not just a package manager, but also > provides/needs its own operating system. So it probably can't be used > with gNewSense as an addition to apt to allow users to install GNU > packages in their home directories. > > I think that at this moment both gNewSense en Guix are worthwile > projects to work on. > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -- Atenciosamente / Sincerely, Guilherme Prá Vieira <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid>
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