Tomáš Čech <sleep_wal...@gnu.org> skribis: > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:21:27AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> I think for 0.8.2 I will actually bump the requirement to Guile 2.0.7 or >>> 2.0.9 (the latter is what Debian 8 has.) People on older systems will >>> still be able to install Guix using the binary tarball. >>> >>> What do people think? >> >>Sounds good to me. The binary tarball should probably be the preferred >>method for installing on top of other distros anyway. > > Why?
I think Mark was referring to users of distros that do not have a Guix package. Of course when a distro has a Guix package, that’s the preferred and most convenient way. Ludo’.