Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 03:51:11PM +0100, Simon Tournier wrote: >> About this, it reminds me some ideas [0,1] discussed months ago: moving >> peripheral packages to channels (still maintained by Guix, but as >> separate repositories). >> Good candidates to be extracted seem the current Guix proper packages >> from CRAN and/or Bioconductor, then humanly maintain them into one or >> more dedicated channels – unrelated to the fully automated guix-cran and >> guix-bioc channels. > > I am very hesitant about this splitting idea, at least until I see a > working proposition.
Same here: experience with Guix-Science has shown that this is very tricky. :-) Sorry I didn’t mean to bring the discussion in that direction. My question is more what to do first about packages with vibe-coded software, and then more generally to avoid indefinite growth—but the latter is a more difficult topic that we should probably keep for another day. Ludo’.
