Re: guix-based installation of pigx-rnaseq - works

[Steffen Möller <steffen.moeller@uni-rostock.de>]

Am 05.03.21 um 01:18 schrieb zimoun:
> Hi Pjotr,
>
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 at 22:16, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public44@thebird.nl> wrote:
>
>> I love Debian, but Guix packages and containers are the cats whiskers!
>> It is brilliant to have them both. I have no need for conda.
> Now this works:
>
>   # apt install guix
>   $ guix install hello
>
> and since Vagrant sent the announce on Guix Devel, I have on my TODO to
> try the contrary: install Debian packages on Guix System,
>
>   # guix install dpkg
>   # dpkg <RTFM>
This is darn cool.
> Because packages are really hard to package (I have in mind Machine
> Learning stuff) and they will not be included soon, IMHO.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pytorch

But all the CI with GPUs are yet not clear if I got this right.

> Then I could
> remove my Guix on the top of Debian and simply have Debian inside
> Guix. ;-)
Could we make this somehow visible on popcon.debian.org?

Best,

Steffen