Hi David, On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:18:12AM +0200, David Seaward wrote: > Hi all, > > To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix > project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as > an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. > > The reason I ask is that cross-distro installers are increasingly > popular (for example, Flatpak and Snappy) but none of them (currently) > provide a central repository that is guaranteed free. [1][2] It > occurred to me that Guix could function as an "app store" (repository) > as well as a distro.
Some deja vu ;). And if they don't have the isolation that Guix has these package managers will break. They all do. > As well as supporting the Guix package manager on other distros, I'd > guess this would also require integration with PackageKit / GNOME > Software. [3] It would only take Debian to accept Guix as a first class citizen. Less odd then it looks, because they also allow cpan and what not. But, so far, they have rejected inclusion of the Guix package manager. > Or is this kind of thinking out-of-scope for the Guix/Guix SD project > as it stands today? Guix works perfectly as a package manager on another distro, as long as you have root. Many people do that here. I agree that we could present that better to the outside world. Pj.