I tried it once and couldn’t even pull Firefox. If something that common isn’t easily retrievable, it doesn’t bode well for packages less popular than Firefox. Would docker, wine, redis, and other stuff suddenly be missing forcing me to repackage everything?
The prospect of writing packages for everything that isn’t libre doesn’t seem very appealing. They should have a repo with libre stuff and another with whatever doesn’t for their definition. And it should be dead easy to do. If I have to scour the internet for a guide that ends up being the equivalent of Gulliver’s Travels, well… it won’t attract many people.
There’s a good reason Guix isn’t in distrowatch’s top anything.
The prospect of writing packages for everything that isn’t libre doesn’t seem very appealing. They should have a repo with libre stuff and another with whatever doesn’t for their definition.
This exists already - the nonguix channel on gitlab.
Interesting. It still looks like it needs a lot of contributions. I think I’d need a substantial amount of work to get Guix running on my PC with the software and hardware I use. Gaming seems like it would be an absolute chore. Anyway, good that the repo exists.
You can also easily distribute your own channel with a git repo of package definitions.
Yeah, it’s like NixOS.
Probably Guix does fit my conviction more than NixOS, but the amount of work necesary at the moment seems daunting and I don’t have the time for that.
It still looks like it needs a lot of contributions. I think I’d need a substantial amount of work to get Guix running on my PC with the software and hardware I use.
Could be.
But why should people which want to create, share, and use free software do that work for you?
I tried it once and couldn’t even pull Firefox. If something that common isn’t easily retrievable, it doesn’t bode well for packages less popular than Firefox. Would docker, wine, redis, and other stuff suddenly be missing forcing me to repackage everything?
The prospect of writing packages for everything that isn’t libre doesn’t seem very appealing. They should have a repo with libre stuff and another with whatever doesn’t for their definition. And it should be dead easy to do. If I have to scour the internet for a guide that ends up being the equivalent of Gulliver’s Travels, well… it won’t attract many people.
There’s a good reason Guix isn’t in distrowatch’s top anything.
This exists already.
Interesting. It still looks like it needs a lot of contributions. I think I’d need a substantial amount of work to get Guix running on my PC with the software and hardware I use. Gaming seems like it would be an absolute chore. Anyway, good that the repo exists.
Yeah, it’s like NixOS.
Probably Guix does fit my conviction more than NixOS, but the amount of work necesary at the moment seems daunting and I don’t have the time for that.
Could be.
But why should people which want to create, share, and use free software do that work for you?
Never mind. You want confrontation.
Have a good day.