Re: Installing Guix easily on other distros

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Could we add the .spec, PKGBUILD, and debian files to the Guix
> repository?  I know of many projects that include the package manifests
> to simplify building packages for major distributions.
>
> An advantage would be that we knew about these files and users wouldn’t
> have to search around for the latest package sources.

If we are able to generate deb and rpm files from the Guix package
definition without too much burden, I think it is a good idea.  However
having a "debian" directory + a spec file + ....  will require
additional maintenance efforts and an extra layer of “noise” in the
repository that seems undesirable to me.

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Mathieu Lirzin