rekado

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   by rekado 12y ago

   > The learning curve is pretty steep. It's not just a new config language, it's also letting go of many preconceptions one may have (where stuff lives on the filesystem e.g.). As a fairly new developer I don't find the lea
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   by rekado 12y ago

   We are going to use Guix as a package manager on a bioinformatics cluster. Managing various different scientific applications at different versions with very different dependencies for different user groups is something that is incredibly
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   by rekado 12y ago

   It works very well on top of an existing distribution (I'm using it on Fedora). You only need to add ~/.guix-profile/bin to your PATH once everything is installed.
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   by rekado 12y ago

   One disadvantage compared to RPM and apt-get is that there are not as many packages available yet.
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   by rekado 12y ago

   A disadvantage is that some services (like dbus) look for service files in a well-known location. When packages are installed they don't place any of their files in a directory outside of their target directory. So, JACK2, for exampl