Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

[Mark H Weaver]

Tobias Platen <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't
>> because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate
>> the .deb or .rpm from some gexp? 
>> 
> Debian also includes GNUstep which lives in /usr/gnustep. Maybe /gnu
> could be moves to /usr/gnu on Debian.

All of our binary substitutes are built with a store prefix of /gnu.
Using a different store prefix requires bootstrapping the entire system
from source code, once per core-updates cycle, and also doing frequent
rebuilds of upper layers of the stack to keep up with the updates on our
master branch.  Most users won't want to do this.

      Mark