Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > Hi Guix, > > I’d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get third-party > packages, because we can’t really keep track of packages that were added > or redefined in this way. I want to replace it with slightly more > formal “channels”.
Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it sounds more like “overlays” (in Gentoo world) rather than “channels” (in Nix world, to ensure binaries availability and updates stability) to me. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay https://nixos.org/nix/manual/index.html#sec-channels How about call it as “overlay”?
