On: Introducing GNU Guix

[s_husso]

Can someone explain what benefits do I get for using this rather than the package manager offered by my distribution? And do you need root access to install guix? Because if you do then

> unprivileged package management

seems quite, well, useless imho. If on the other hand everything in guix lives in the userland, I can see myself using it in the servers I don't have root-access to..

[eyko → s_husso]

No, you do not need root access in order to install guix. Put it in your home folder, there, done. For ease of use add it to your $PATH.

[s_husso → eyko]

Thanks for clearing it up :)

[kokey → s_husso]

It does feel a bit like it can become a platform independent alternative to something like Cygwin. Along the lines of ActiveState perl, but a whole GNU environment instead.

[zem → kokey]

i wonder if userdir-based language package managers like rvm, cabal and opam can profitably rebase themselves atop guix.