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The OP is about package managers that an unprivileged user can deploy by themselves on arbitrary POSIX systems. Guix docs make it sound like it (a) needs root t
by jitl 9y ago
The OP is about package managers that an unprivileged user can deploy by themselves on arbitrary POSIX systems. Guix docs make it sound like it (a) needs root to work best, and (b) only targets GNU/Linux - hence iffy for those purposes.
Re: freedom - One persons
feature is another’s useless restriction. I’d rather my package manager have strictly more software available, even if some of that software isn’t guaranteed GPL-compatible.
- rekado 9y ago"guaranteed GPL-compatible" This is a common misunderstanding. There's much more free software out there than software under the GPL. "Only providing free software" does not mean "only providing software under the GPL or a GPL-compatible license". That would be ludicrous. Guix does not provide proprietary software and I consider this a feature.