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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought |
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Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:54:37 -0500 |
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Cook, Malcolm <address@hidden> writes:
> > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all
> > community members.
>
> It’s free software ;)
>
> Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on Guix
> upstream to add packages. It is trivial to use custom packages with
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
It can't be overstated *how* trivial it is. I've found that users of
mutable-state package managers just don't believe me when I tell them.
It's even easy to have out-of-tree packages, pulled in with
GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, that depend on in-tree packages or package updates
that you haven't upstreamed yet.
- Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/08
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/09
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought,
Leo Famulari <=
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/18
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/28
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/28
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09