On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 07:51:46PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > >> Still, I think Guix would benefit from a somewhat more relaxed stance > >> in this. > > > > It’s part of Guix’s mission to build from source whenever that is > > possible, which is the case here, AIUI.
Mission is fine and I agree with that (in principle). > WDYT, do we have enough information to decide if building from `source' > the right metaphor? Is it pracically feasible and does feasibilty have > any weight? What's the next step I could take to help to bring `q' and > `http' (and the other 316 packages I need) into Guix? I think we are clear we do not want binaries in the main project unless there is no way to do it from source. Personally I think we should be easier on ourselves which implies that we get multiple flavours of Guix. Another reason to make 'guix channels' work. Pj.
