Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

[Marek Paśnikowski]

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> The question of wording is if it would be an improvement to use terms
> popularized elsewhere.  I have opinions, but perhaps I’m wrongly
> conservative in this regard.
>
> Guix is all about packages, therefore it is a package manager.  I
> believe the shell and container and system, home support are still about
> packages.  Despite other package managers not doing it.
>

If I may, I would like to interject with my own thought here — I have
come to understand Guix as a service manager.  This is because packages
are objects of a profile service, one of many services declarable with
Guix.  As a result of this understanding, I stopped using the 'packages'
fields of operating-system and home-environment, preferring to declare
the packages in profile services' extensions.