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I don't see how they can. Guix/Nix don't run on Windows, so they can't replace the NPM or PIP or Ruby Gems, first off. But I don't even see anything about Guix/

by cwyers 12y ago

I don't see how they can. Guix/Nix don't run on Windows, so they can't replace the NPM or PIP or Ruby Gems, first off. But I don't even see anything about Guix/Nix that make them especially capable of unifying Linux package management. (Heck, given that there's two of them, I don't see how either can be said to unify the specific kind of Linux package management they do.)

davexunit 12y ago
>Guix/Nix don't run on Windows Correct. On Windows you can't do any better than a swarm of language package managers. Without the ability to create a custom Windows distribution starting from a systems level package manager, there's no hope in having anything better.