The packaging is functional, the scripting is not. Guix still uses a fork of the nix-daemon, and thus derivations. The "functional packages, no side effects" pa

The packaging is functional, the scripting is not. Guix still uses a fork of the nix-daemon, and thus derivations. The "functional packages, no side effects" part is still guaranteed in the build & install part. I'd say it's largely what you want, minus probably some GNU-isms in their packaging choices.