There is an Emacs interface in install Guix packages, but at present there is 
not a working GUI for installing packages with guix. :(

I think there may have been a web interface to install packages at some point? 
maybe?

For those interested in creating such a GUI, they might like to look at 
guile-gi, which will eventually let you build GUIs from guile code.

Thanks,

Joshua
https://gnucode.me

October 29, 2020 12:44 PM, "Aniket Patil" <aniket112.pa...@gmail.com 
(mailto:aniket112.pa...@gmail.com?to=%22Aniket%20Patil%22%20<aniket112.pa...@gmail.com>)>
 wrote:
Hi all,
I am a researcher in the field of AI. Many of the people in the field of AI are 
inclining towards GNU/Linux operating systems. Particularly I would say they 
use Ubuntu. In general, they can also use LinuxMint or any other GNU/Linux 
distro of their choice. What I noticed in these people (researchers) they tend 
to be more focused on mathematical aspects and scientific programming. If we 
build a GUI frontend then we can attract more people who don't identify 
themselves with CLI users. As such there are many people like writers, Graphic 
Designers, General users, etc. who don't bother about CLI, will love to see 
such a package manager. And considering the fact GUIX lets rollback to the 
previous version of the package it will be very helpful in the scientific 
community, to maintain and work with different versions of packages. 
For example, the LAMBDA ( consist of TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, NVIDIA Cuda, 
Ubuntu) stack is very popular in the field of AI. Now if a person with a fresh 
install of GNU/Linux wants to install the stack and work immediately, through 
GUI he can search for the recipe of LAMBDA and install it. Not only that if it 
doesn't exist, but they can also create and share their own recipe with other 
guix users or to the main server/repo. E.g Linus Torvalds shares the recipe of 
building a Linux kernel environment. User finds it, installs it, and start 
working on the development of the Linux kernel immediately. 
P.S: I don't know whether GUI for Guix exists or not, to my knowledge it 
doesn't. If I am mistaken please enlighten me on this topic. 
Regards, 
Aniket.

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