On 22/07/05 11:14am, Munyoki Kilyungi wrote: > James Crake-Merani <ja...@jamescm.co.uk> > anaandika: > > [...] > > > Hi, > > > > The reason why I have been a bit reluctant to use GNU Guix for this > > sort of thing is that the distro I use is not Guix but rather Arch > > Linux. > > I run Arch Linux + GNU Guix (as a package manager) > and it's a nice experience. I use GNU Guix as my > primary package manager. I'd recommend you give > it a try ;) > > > I do intend to try out GNU Guix in the future but at the moment > > I have lots of other things to do. I am aware Guix does work on > > foreign distros but I will need to learn how to use it first. > > > > I understand what you say regarding Guile Hall. I too do not > > understand the autotools machinery but it did seem simple to setup > > without that understanding. Thanks for sharing your repository. > > > > Worth mentioning that GNU Guix provides facilities > for bundling packages using "guix pack". You > could provide "tar.gz" files, or even bundle > things inside docker/squashfs containers for easy > distribution without requiring your end-user to > download anything extra. For more read: > <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html#Invoking-guix-pack> > > [...] > > -- > (Life is like a pencil that will surely run out, > but will leave the beautiful writing of life.) > (D4F09EB110177E03C28E2FE1F5BBAE1E0392253F > (hkp://keys.gnupg.net))
Hi, Thanks for letting me know! I will have a look at that.