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Well, you can specify extra packages using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, and I've seen a few custom repos, such as this: https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformati
by Slackwise 10y ago
Well, you can specify extra packages using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, and I've seen a few custom repos, such as this:
https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics
and
https://github.com/Ecogenomics/ace-guix https://github.com/Ecogenomics/ace-guix
I'm not sure how easy it is to maintain a system with extra packages like this, but it'd be nice to be able to use an "overlay" repo as you can in Gentoo for personal/custom packages.
Would love to ping davexunit to see if he can elaborate, because I don't see any specific way to add repositories from the documentation.
- davexunit 10y agoThere's no such thing as a repository in Guix. Using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH is the closest thing, conceptually.
- Slackwise 10y agoAhh, well, then it appears I have to manage a directory of packages myself, as well as any dependencies outside of the Guix store, right? Would be nice to just have a secondary source, as I do with MELPA for Emacs, or overlays for Gentoo. Is something similar/comparable planned to be added? Orrr should someone step forward and volunteer to add it as a feature...?