"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> The question of wording is if it would be an improvement to use terms > popularized elsewhere. I have opinions, but perhaps I’m wrongly > conservative in this regard. > > Guix is all about packages, therefore it is a package manager. I > believe the shell and container and system, home support are still about > packages. Despite other package managers not doing it. > If I may, I would like to interject with my own thought here — I have come to understand Guix as a service manager. This is because packages are objects of a profile service, one of many services declarable with Guix. As a result of this understanding, I stopped using the 'packages' fields of operating-system and home-environment, preferring to declare the packages in profile services' extensions.
