On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:06:56AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > A provocation: because of purism GNU Guix takes an elitist approach. > > I am thinking that we need another project because it appears to be > impossible to combine low threshold with GNU Guix goals. > > How about Alt-Guix, a packaging effort without opinion. As long as a > package builds it gets accepted. This can act as an incubator for main > line. There will be no purist views on syntax, layout, license, github > etc. The whole idea is to build on each others shoulders and anything > that starts is a great contribution. > > It would have accepted Erlang + Elixir packages half a year ago and > made it possible to get people interested in these much earlier. Maybe > they would have made it to main line already because more people got > involved and wanted that. > > This is much closer to my idea of successful incremental FOSS > projects, i.e., welcome all comers. I think that is part of the appeal > of brew and conda. People need immediate gratification for work. > > I understand the need for purism, and applaud the idea, but we are > throwing up too many barriers. > > Because GNU Guix is an extreme, we can have the other extreme too. It > would make it easier to invite people, train people and find packages > now hiding behind GUIX_PACKAGE_PATHs. > > Pj.
I've wanted to do something like this, but what about carrying non-package patches? ie for bootloader support on ARM and better device-mapper support
