Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Yesterday I gave a passionate 'I love Guix' lightning talk about Guix
>>> packages at the biohackathon in Japan. Many people after approached me
>>> and said that the website is confusing them because it looks like it
>>> is promoting a Linux distribution... I know this is an old topic, but
>>> it would be nice if we found a way to promote Guix packaging as it
>>> works so well outside GuixSD.
>>
>> Yes, that should be a nice side-effect of calling everything “Guix”.
>
> does this mean that "guix system" is capable of
> instantiating/reconfiguring an operating-system declaration (services
> included) even outside GuixSD?
>
> AFAIK for this we need Sheperd as PID 1 and I do not know how I can get
> it on a systemd based (or any other different PID 1) distro

The only thing that doesn’t work on a foreign distro is ‘guix system
reconfigure’, understandably.  The rest works exactly the same way.

Ludo’.