2013/12/17 Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> > Op Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:30:21 -0500 > schreef Felipe Lopez <felipe.lo...@gmail.com>: > > > 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. >
True. And, as in gNewSense, they need more skilled people to join and make things happen. > > 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. > Yes, the idea is to have an independent operating system that uses all the GNU tools available. > > I think that at this moment both gNewSense en Guix are worthwile > projects to work on. > I'll contribute to both whenever and wherever I can. For those interested, a new roadmap for Guix 1.0 was published today: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00120.html -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/
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