Josselin Poiret <d...@jpoiret.xyz> writes:
> Hello, > > Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> writes: > >> I would love for Guix to be a Multi Kernel package manager (I mean it >> works on the Hurd also, but I have never encountered a Hurd user in real >> life). My dream would be to port Guix to Plan 9 ;-) > > I don't think Guix runs on the Hurd in the same way that Guix runs on > Linux: the (gnu system hurd) tells me that the daemon is started with > --disable-chroot, which actually disables all isolation mechanisms. > There would need to be a significant effort to port the isolation > mechanisms to the Hurd. > > Seeing how the daemon is in general left alone since C++ is hard > compared to Scheme (and there's always the "but we could rewrite it in > Guile" excuse), combined with the difficulty of interfacing with > kernels, I'm not sure BSD support (or even Hurd support) will appear > anytime soon. > > Best, Someone was working on NetBSD support but ran into libc differences or something and didn't get much support.
