Re: Relaxing the restrictions for store item names

[jbranso]

August 23, 2023 6:27 AM, "Eidvilas Markevičius" <markeviciuseidvilas@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hello Guix,
> 
> Another scenario where these artificial restrictions could be a
> potential cause of trouble is when we consider a possibility that Guix
> might be used for packaging and distributing not only software, but
> all kinds of non-executable data such as films, books, music,
> databases, historical documents, website archives, etc. [3]. 

+1 on distributing films with guix.  I personally want to package the video 
lectures
for structure and interpretation of programs to guix.
 
> [0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64976
> [1] 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/nix/libstore/store-api.cc#n58
> [2] https://raštija.lt/liepa/paslaugos-vartotojams/narsytuvas
> [3] https://gitlab.com/guix-media-channels