On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > ng0 writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: >>> Konrad Hinsen writes: >>> >>>> On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: >>>> >>>>> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >>>>> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >>>>> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. >>>> >>>> That's already possible right now. Go to the download page and check for >>>> "GNU Guix 0.13.0 Binary". This is Guix for other Linux distros, as a >>>> look at the installation instructions will confirm. I am using this on a >>>> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation on my laptop. >>>> >>>> Konrad. >>> >>> It would still be nice if we provided .deb/.rpm/etc files on that page. >> >> By my own observation, systems including Guix either officially >> or by third-party / community methods: > > Cool! > >> Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/ >> Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/guix > > These provide Guix in their own upstream repository so I think it would > be good to mention on the Download page. > >> Debian: from past discussion and on request from Whonix iirc it is currently >> not possible due to Debian Packaging Standards (expected package >> behavior) or something along the lines, see guix-devel archives. >> Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lantw44/guix/ >> Slackware: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/guix/ >> is on 0.12, needs an update. Any slacker up for that task? >> Otherwise, ping the maintainer: >> > Maintained by: Hunter Sezen Parabola also has guix, but an outdated version [1]. I installed the latest binary version on my Parabola system, which I downloaded from gnu.org. > > Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't > because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate > the .deb or .rpm from some gexp? > Debian also includes GNUstep which lives in /usr/gnustep. Maybe /gnu could be moves to /usr/gnu on Debian.
[1] https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=guix
