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

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Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

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

Someone was working on NetBSD support but ran into libc differences or
something and didn't get much support.