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From the e-mail: In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per
by zoul 14y ago
From the e-mail:
In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection
Maybe that’s enough? (I don’t understand package managers.)
- danieldk 14y agoThen, why reinvent the obvious other wheel? http://nixos.org/nix/ http://nixos.org/nix/
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- dbaupp 14y agoIt's not a reinvention, it's a fork: "Guix is based on the Nix package manager." [https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/ https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/] (More info here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2012-07/msg00006.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2012-07/msg000..., taken from icebraining below)
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- jmtd 14y agoI'm not sure it's even a fork. It appears to plug a different backend/frontend into the nix structure, so it appears to be a "patch", for want of a better word. (at least that's what I gleaned from http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guix-ghm-2012.20120721.pdf http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guix-ghm-2012.201...)
- madjar 14y agoAccording to the site of the project, "Guix is based on the Nix package manager."