>Your system, requires what should be metadata -- package build instructions -- to be intermingled with code -- the package manager program.
Package build instructions are code. C Packages builds in Guix are a pure function of their dependencies and the version of Guix being used, so it makes perfect sense to ship the package recipes with Guix itself.
>Intermeshing the software from the data is just going to lead to problems.
So far it's lead to a lot of solutions. As Lispers often say, code is data, and data is code. I think you have a disagreement with this notion, so it's obvious why you would not like Guix or Nix.
Package build instructions are code. C Packages builds in Guix are a pure function of their dependencies and the version of Guix being used, so it makes perfect sense to ship the package recipes with Guix itself.
>Intermeshing the software from the data is just going to lead to problems.
So far it's lead to a lot of solutions. As Lispers often say, code is data, and data is code. I think you have a disagreement with this notion, so it's obvious why you would not like Guix or Nix.