NixCon 2020

2020-09-21 Thread Buttery Pancake
I am planning to do a presentation for NixCon 2020, which will be on 16 and 17 October. This will be a contrast between Guix and Nix. I have prepared a self-shot of my presentation, https://share.riseup.net/#N9ggM6bRWviQCTro3_qerQ Please leave your feed-back.

Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Buttery Pancake
> which need to be user-writable, whereas the rest of /gnu only need to be > writable by the daemon. This means that we end up mounting the same > directories more than once with different permissions. Yes. As default, wouldn't it be better to use `/guix/guix-var-stuff` instead of `/var/guix/gu

Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Buttery Pancake
I was looking at a NixCon 2019 session called "Guix from the Nix Perspective" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGzCXr6VYU). I am wondering why Guix chose `/var/guix` path instead of `/gnu/var/guix` or `/guix/var/guix`, as Nix uses `/nix/var/nix`? I do think that having only one or two director