Agreed. GNU Guix makes it easy for anyone to publish a bunch of package recipes for their own software that users just need to add to their GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.

Agreed. GNU Guix makes it easy for anyone to publish a bunch of package recipes for their own software that users just need to add to their GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. The benefit is that it integrates with the rest of the system and thus shares software updates, storage space, and gets overall features such as isolated builds and transactional upgrades and rollback.