> Imho, this is a pity because it means one package manager (Guix) is circumventing another (pip), and thus wasting the effort that went into building and suppo

> Imho, this is a pity because it means one package manager (Guix) is circumventing another (pip), and thus wasting the effort that went into building and supporting it. The thing is, language package managers may work well for software written solely in that language, but that breaks down real fast when any of them have native dependencies (and many do). Guix is intended to be a universal Linux package manager that can handle packages written in any language on any distro. (It does this better for some languages than others, admittedly.) I’ve experienced enough very broken Python environments that I appreciate only having one package manager to worry about. I wouldn’t say it’s wasting the effort of Python packaging devs though; it does have an importer for pip packages, so the standard Python packaging work makes it easier to import pip packages into Guix.