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None that I know of currently. The OS is version 0.15.0. It's very young and doesn't have a huge user base. I'm sure there will be non gnu repositories that

None that I know of currently. The OS is version 0.15.0. It's very young and doesn't have a huge user base. I'm sure there will be non gnu repositories that will eventually spring up. I've even toyed with the idea of setting one up.

nerdponx 8y ago
Even as a toy example, a blog post and code that demonstrates setting up a 3rd-party package repository would be helpful. I'm just afraid of the GUIX team deciding they don't want to support 3rd-party repos because it encourages non-free software use, and deliberately stonewalling development of related features.
- rekado 8y ago
  Guix has had support for external package definitions for a long time (via GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH) and recently gained a channels feature, which makes this even easier. At the institute where I work we use this feature to provide package variants that aren't going to be added to Guix proper (e.g. because they are no longer supported upstream or because they are only useful on obscure systems). This mechanism can be used to include package definitions for non-free software, of course, but this doesn't mean that the Guix project encourages the use of non-free software. You have the freedom to package up and use non-free software, but we won't make them part of Guix, build them on our build farms, and we won't hold back changes to the mechanism even if that might break 3rd-party collections of non-free software. You don't really need a blog post about how to set up a package repository, because it's right there in the Guix manual. PS: It's "Guix", not "GUIX" ;)
  - nerdponx 8y ago
    Thanks for the reply. As long as it's easy to mix free and non-free packages at my discretion, I'm willing to give it a shot. Also, thank you for the capitalization correction. It grinds my gears when people capitalize things unnecessarily and I wouldn't want to be one of them!

nerdponx 8y ago

Even as a toy example, a blog post and code that demonstrates setting up a 3rd-party package repository would be helpful. I'm just afraid of the GUIX team deciding they don't want to support 3rd-party repos because it encourages non-free software use, and deliberately stonewalling development of related features.

rekado 8y ago
Guix has had support for external package definitions for a long time (via GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH) and recently gained a channels feature, which makes this even easier. At the institute where I work we use this feature to provide package variants that aren't going to be added to Guix proper (e.g. because they are no longer supported upstream or because they are only useful on obscure systems). This mechanism can be used to include package definitions for non-free software, of course, but this doesn't mean that the Guix project encourages the use of non-free software. You have the freedom to package up and use non-free software, but we won't make them part of Guix, build them on our build farms, and we won't hold back changes to the mechanism even if that might break 3rd-party collections of non-free software. You don't really need a blog post about how to set up a package repository, because it's right there in the Guix manual. PS: It's "Guix", not "GUIX" ;)
- nerdponx 8y ago
  Thanks for the reply. As long as it's easy to mix free and non-free packages at my discretion, I'm willing to give it a shot. Also, thank you for the capitalization correction. It grinds my gears when people capitalize things unnecessarily and I wouldn't want to be one of them!