Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a thought experiment at this stage. Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? For example, GNU Guix would be a core channel containing the reduced binary seed bootstrap and a few other core packages

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-12-24, jgart wrote: > I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on this idea. This is a > thought experiment at this stage. > > Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)? > > For example, GNU Guix would be a core channel containing the reduced > binary seed bootstrap and

Re: Stratification of GNU Guix into Independent Channels

2022-12-23 Thread jgart
I think we also need a channel manager subcommand: guix channel add python guix channel add rust guix channel add gaming guix channel add rde guix channel add guixrus guix channel add non etc. The above commands would subscribe you to a given trusted Guix channel. The last three are channels