Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> wrote:

> First, I'm not saying that we should do that for every archive, but I
> think that having a way how to automatically export this information
> would be great and I see it as a week point for using Guix packages as
> alternative to Snappy or Flatpak.

I don't really understand the point of this back-and-forth.  It's
quite simple: If the user builds the same package expression with the
same version of Guix, they will get the same result if the build is
deterministic.  I don't understand the contrast with Snappy and
Flatpak because they don't provide this feature at all, opting instead
to provide opaque binaries with no real provenance.  I can only assume
that there is some fundamental misunderstanding about Guix going on
here.

- Dave