Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus 写道: >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >>> The Guix manual says: Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share […] >>> >>> Unless somebody objects, I'd like to (wait for it) nix this from >>> the >>> manual entirely. >> >> I don’t objec

Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ricardo Wurmus 写道: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: The Guix manual says: Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share […] Unless somebody objects, I'd like to (wait for it) nix this from the manual entirely. I don’t object to removing it. In fact, I’d be happy to see it vanish.

Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. writes: > The Guix manual says: >> Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same >> store between >> both. To do so, you must pass configure not only the same >> --with-store-dir >> value, but

Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-27 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Pjotr Prins 写道: It is safe[r?] to use two stores and two daemons. Virtue of isolation :) I agree. There is no advantage to sharing the store that I can imagine is worth the risk and burden of compiling your entire Guix or Nix world from scratch because you can't use substitutes. The Guix m

Re: Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi Daniel, Nix and Guix are quite different even though they share the same root. I used Nix for 10-odd years until I discovered GNU Guix. On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:13:05AM +0200, Daniel Schäfer wrote: > How much of that is still true? The daemon is not compatible anymore and > I don't think it

Compatibility between Nix and Guix

2019-09-25 Thread Daniel Schäfer
Hi all, I've been using NixOS for a few years and now I want to try out Guix. The goal is to see whether there is a benefit to using both and what we can learn from each other. Last year Ludo wrote: > Is compatibility with the nix-daemon a goal of the Guix project? I’ve come to the conclusion