Introducing GNU Guix

From: Ludovic Courtès Subject: Introducing GNU Guix Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:04:22 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a functional package manager and associated free software distribution of the GNU system. https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/ In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection (more details in the manual.) Guix is approaching its first alpha release. It comes with a small and growing user-land software distribution–i.e., it’s not a bootable distribution yet, but rather one to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system. The distribution is self-contained: each package is built based solely on other packages in the distribution; the root of this dependency graph is a small set of bootstrap binaries. The ROADMAP file sketches the current plan. GNU hackers are encouraged to add their package to the distribution. A distribution built by GNU hackers is a great opportunity to improve consistency and cohesion in GNU! The TODO file details some of the many ways you can help. Happy hacking, geeks! :-) Ludo’. PS: Please follow-up to address@hidden or address@hidden

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