Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

[Joshua Branson]

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:
>

To be clear, I did not write the next paragraph.  I was quoting the
previous discussion.  :)

>> I would love for Guix to be a Multi Kernel package manager (I mean it
>> works on the Hurd also, but I have never encountered a Hurd user in real
>> life). My dream would be to port Guix to Plan 9 ;-)
>
> I don't think Guix runs on the Hurd in the same way that Guix runs on
> Linux: the (gnu system hurd) tells me that the daemon is started with
> --disable-chroot, which actually disables all isolation mechanisms.
> There would need to be a significant effort to port the isolation
> mechanisms to the Hurd.
>
> Seeing how the daemon is in general left alone since C++ is hard
> compared to Scheme (and there's always the "but we could rewrite it in
> Guile" excuse), combined with the difficulty of interfacing with
> kernels, I'm not sure BSD support (or even Hurd support) will appear
> anytime soon.
>

To be fair, Guix does support the Hurd. You can run the guix package
manager on the Hurd. Guix System does not yet support the Hurd. Though I
believe I talked with a user in the guix community that was running GNU
Guix System/Hurd, but the issue he ran into was that he has no wifi
support. Then something broke in GNU Guix System/Hurd and he no longer
run GNU Guix System/Hurd on real hardware.

>
> Best,