On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:12:16PM -0500, Josh Marshall wrote: > So a separate channel would work for non-free software? I know the stuff > is fundamentally gross. I'd still like to have a better way to get out of > an ecosystem that is basically entirely all non-free software and a > transition to fully free becomes possible.
Yes, channels can work for any kind of software, and they let us keep Guix as "100% free software". There will be occasional hiccups as the module imports from GNU Guix into the channel are changed, but it shouldn't be too often.