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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought |
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Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:27:07 +0100 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Cook, Malcolm <address@hidden> writes:
>> > + Guix development is open source. It is open to input from all
>> > community members.
>>
>> It’s free software ;)
>>
>> Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on Guix
>> upstream to add packages. It is trivial to use custom packages with
>> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
>
> It can't be overstated *how* trivial it is. I've found that users of
> mutable-state package managers just don't believe me when I tell them.
> It's even easy to have out-of-tree packages, pulled in with
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, that depend on in-tree packages or package updates
> that you haven't upstreamed yet.
I’ve been thinking that we should add a “Defining Package Variants”
section beneath or after the “Defining Packages” node in the manual,
showing how to ‘inherit’ from an existing package, etc.
Any takers? :-)
Ludo’.
- Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/08
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/09
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Leo Famulari, 2016/02/09
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/18
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/28
- Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/28
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
- RE: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Cook, Malcolm, 2016/02/29
Re: Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09