Re: The way to promote GUIX package manager

[Bengt Richter]

On +2022-01-26 23:42:05 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
> 
> > Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian?
> >
> > I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me 
> > that:
> >
> > * Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work
> 
> How does “apt install guix” not work?  There’s an older version of Guix
> in Debian.  After installing it “guix pull” should get the latest
> version and it all works.
>

What does "apt search guix" produce?
(Nothing, on the puri.sm variant of debian. They maintain a custom
pool based on debian minus what they want to exclude AIUI)

> There’s also an installer script at https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh
> which skips the detour through apt and gets you the latest release
> directly.
> 
> > * and his really big complaint is evidently he creates "virtual
> > environments" (short of full-on VMware, I imagine it is an assortment
> > of Linux native tricks that are wrapped by tools like Docker) for
> > every OS he tries but
> > * Evidently the same tricks don't work with Guix
> 
> Is this not *exactly* what “guix shell” (formerly “guix enviromnent”)
> does?  “guix shell -C” enters a container, even, using the same Linux
> namespace mechanism that Docker wraps.
> 
> > * He does not want to try full blown Guix OS without first testing it in 
> > above ways
> 
> Guix can comfortably be used outside of Guix System.  And you can
> *still* use most “guix system” commands, e.g. to build containers or
> virtual machines.
> 
> -- 
> Ricardo
> 

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Regards,
Bengt Richter