Hello, iyzs...@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis:
> 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”? I think “overlay” has the notion that it’s a layer on top of another layer, which is not exactly the case here. It’s not exactly like what Nix channels either, but closer to that, I think. Ludo’.
