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>I can't wait until someone forks guix without the whole ideology thing. There's no reason to fork Guix since ideology doesn't affect the software itself at al
by forgotpwd16 4y ago
>I can't wait until someone forks guix without the whole ideology thing.
There's no reason to fork Guix since ideology doesn't affect the software itself at all. Rather what you want is make an alternative definitions repo. Pretty sure I've seen such one that includes software not accepted on official channels.
- Roark66 4y agoIndeed alternative "channels" exist. I mentioned them in my post. However, their authors don't question the ideological side of things. As I mentioned they even include statements how this software is "evil" etc. What does it matter, you may say, the software is available! Yes, it is, but because of the whole "please don't advertise non-guix non-free(by their definition) software" it is hard to find to new users. Additionally pretty much all support there is for guix is provided by maybe 5 people on the irc channel. If you go to nonguix that number shrinks to perhaps 3 or 2. It is not easy to get support when the whole community is few people. By "forking without the ideology" I would like to see guix under a new name, the name new users would search and find an installer that used normal Linux Kernel that supports a lot of software,after installing they would find a (hopefully) large community that is helpful in how to package any kind of software. One where a user doesn't have to hide the fact their trying top package software with proprietary components to get help etc. The "pure" guix has a different mission and it can continue with its libre-kernel . As of now, the software things I mention (guix with normal Kernel) exist, but they are not popular, as a result they are not as up to date as they could be. Also the whole project popularity suffers as a result.