On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> 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 installing Guix o RPM-based systems like Fedora. > > Maybe someone using Fedora may want to add a package request in their > bug-tracker. I already did for Mageia.
This has come up several times, and I agree that we should provide packages for popular GNU/Linux distributions. However, Guix *cannot* be made available in many distros official repositories (most notably Debian and Fedora) because Guix violates their policies, such as: - Software must conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (violation: Guix introduces the /gnu directory) - Software must be bootstrapped from source (violation: Guix requires a set of bootstrap binaries that *cannot* be replaced by the distro without changing the hashes of every package, effectively preventing them from receiving binaries from hydra.gnu.org) Guix is at odds with other distros because it is a distro itself. So, I think what would be best is for users of these distros to host Guix packages in popular places for third-party packages, like Arch's AUR or Fedora's COPR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/ https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lantw44/guix/ What would be even better is if people *told us* when they made a package. I learned about these indirectly, long after they were originally available. Hope this helps, - Dave
