>sam. 10 janv. 2026 at 20:43, Ekaitz Zarraga <[email protected]> wrote:

> What I meant here is we can use the concept of "toolchain" we already have so 
> people can
> install everything together in one `guix install` or `guix shell` command. 
> That could be
> great!
>
> We could use some of that. In the end, toolchains are just packages that 
> include a set of
> packages. So we have the mechanism for that already and we could make use of 
> it.
>
> Kicad is an obvious example I think, the symbols and the libraries are 
> separated, so you
> have to install all. Maybe a "toolchain"-like package that had all those 
> together could be
> a good idea.
>
> For FPGAs we could do something similar. The set of packages that are 
> normally used for
> FPGAs are almost always the same, we could combine them in just one.

You’re absolutely right, I never thought of that this way: a bundle of
tools for the task at hand. "Kicad" for all kicad-whaterver, "fpga" for
all fpga development related, etc. I like the idea.

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