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Those things are never going to be adopted by Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, or any other non-Debian based distro. That is reason enough not to use it.
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Those things are never going to be adopted by Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, or any other non-Debian based distro. That is reason enough not to use it.
- rjbond3rd 14y agoWhy? Because you predict it won't meet your definition of popularity? Once upon a time, Arch and Gentoo were dismissed in exactly this way.
- Karunamon 14y agoArch and Gentoo are still tiny fractions of the linux install base (which is itself a tiny fraction of users), and are mostly irrelevant.
- rjbond3rd 14y agoIrrelevant for what, to whom? Everything is a tiny fraction of something -- are you saying that value is purely a function of popularity?
- freshhawk 14y agoUnless you feel that those that write software have more influence in the direction of the community than those who just apt-get/yum install it. Then they are a small fraction of users but are not irrelevant.
- perssontm 14y agoPerhaps it doesnt matter, if this provides a large enough software base, then fedora, arch, gentoo etc would perhaps just write a guix->(dpkg|rpm|...) converter to keep their distribution up to date. Not sure if it would be possible but moving work upstream where more detailed and in-depth knowledge is available might be a good thing.
- rokgarbas 14y agowith guix/nix you don't even care if they get adopted or not. you can use it in coexistence with any package manager. very common scenario i come across few times a year: you get to work on an old CentOS/RedHat/Fedora box but you need to install latest package X which is only in next version of current distro. which would mean you need to upgrade or do a lot of manual work. with guix/nix you just install it without need to upgrade.