[Nix-dev] GNU Guix 0.6 released
Ludovic Courtès
ludo at gnu.org
Thu Apr 10 10:26:27 CEST 2014
(Stripping Cc.)
Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> skribis:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:29:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> • About
>>
>> GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU system
>> distribution.
>>
>> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
>> transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
>> management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses
>> low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme
>> programming interfaces.
>>
>> At this stage Guix can be used on top of an i686, x86_64, or mips64el
>> GNU/Linux system, or in a virtual machine. Future versions will
>> stand alone.
>>
>
> My brain keeps parsing this as "guix will run on bare metal", what does
> stand alone mean here?
It means there’ll be a standalone distro, like NixOS. I suppose the
wording could be improved.
>> • Changes since version 0.5 (excerpt from the NEWS file)
>>
>> ** Package management
>> *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
>>
>
> What was the motivation behind this change?
Marketing of course! ;-)
For newcomers it may clarify the fact that it’s a distro different from
Nixpkgs, with different goals.
Ludo’.
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