Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 14.04.2016 um 19:00 schrieb Mathieu Lirzin: > If we are able to generate deb and rpm files from the Guix package > definition without too much burden, I think it is a good idea. However > having a "debian" directory + a spec file + will require > additional maintenance efforts and an extr

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Could we add the .spec, PKGBUILD, and debian files to the Guix > repository? I know of many projects that include the package manifests > to simplify building packages for major distributions. > > An advantage would be that we knew about these files and users wouldn’t >

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Thompson, David" skribis: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Ricardo Wurmus > wrote: >> >> Thompson, David writes: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Hartmut Goebel >>> wrote: Hi, today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily installable and man

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Thompson, David writes: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Hartmut Goebel > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily >> installable and manageable in other distros being higher priority. This >> could attract more users to ry out Guix. So I created

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 04/14/2016 03:51 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily > installable and manageable in other distros being higher priority. This > could attract more users to ry out Guix. So I created a draft .spec-file > for building and instal

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Thompson, David
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Thompson, David writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Hartmut Goebel >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily >>> installable and manageable in other distros being higher prio

Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Thompson, David
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily > installable and manageable in other distros being higher priority. This > could attract more users to ry out Guix. So I created a draft .spec-file > for building a

Installing Guix easily on other distros

2016-04-14 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, today on irc, there was discussion about that Guix should be easily installable and manageable in other distros being higher priority. This could attract more users to ry out Guix. So I created a draft .spec-file for building and installing Guix o RPM-based systems like Fedora. Maybe someone