Re: [RFC] A simple draft for channels

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

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> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> I’d like to retire GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as the main way to get third-party
>> packages, because we can’t really keep track of packages that were added
>> or redefined in this way.  I want to replace it with slightly more
>> formal “channels”.
>
> Hello, as a way to get and manage third-party guix repositories, it
> sounds more like “overlays” (in Gentoo world) rather than “channels” (in
> Nix world, to ensure binaries availability and updates stability) to me.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
> https://nixos.org/nix/manual/index.html#sec-channels
>
> How about call it as “overlay”?

I think “overlay” has the notion that it’s a layer on top of another
layer, which is not exactly the case here.  It’s not exactly like what
Nix channels either, but closer to that, I think.

Ludo’.