Hello, On Sun, Mar 04 2018, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 27 février 2018, 14.13:41 h CET Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a >écrit : >> tl;dr: a new package format is needed, with a new non-suite-specific >> repository is needed to bring the Debian added-value to these >> ecosystems. > > FTR, my current line of thought and understanding is that guix or nix > do pretty much what is needed here, and it would be silly to start > something from scratch. > > I plan to spend some brain time playing with guix and report back; I'm > aware of: > > * https://bugs.debian.org/850644 for guix > * https://bugs.debian.org/877019 for nix > * Diane Trout's efforts 2 years ago on > https://github.com/detrout/debian-guix AIUI the guix repositories care more about including only free software than the nix repositories do. That might be a reason for us to prefer guix. Thank you for investigating these options! -- Sean Whitton
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