On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > So, I talked about this with Stefano Zacchiroli while at FOSDEM. He > suggested that we could do /opt/g/ or something like that and we *could* > get Guix in as a package manager to Debian. Sure, it wouldn't be able > to use the Hydra packages, but it's probably okayish.
Unless users get binaries they won't be happy. > We could also build apt / rpm packages which we just provide ourselves, > on the Guix website, or by providing some PPA'ish thing. I would have > preferred this myself when I started running Debian on Guix... and in > this route we could keep everything as it already is. (But people will > have to take an extra step to "get to" those nice packages.) That looks like the way forward to me. Such a package can setup and start the daemon - which is enough. No need to get the blessing from the distributions themselves (will take time, but it will come - there really is no difference with allowing foreign packages to work anyway). Pj.
