Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.
I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!
I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.
Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.
I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!
I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.
yes, you would share with him guix manifest which is a file that specifies which packages should be present. What is important to note are inferiors which is a mechanism to version lock the packages.
Aaaah: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Writing-Manifests.html
# Write a manifest for the packages specified on the command line. guix shell --export-manifest gcc-toolchain make git > manifest.scmHeck yeah!
thats it :) Now you need to pin package versions to guix versions via inferior so that you can share the manifest and be sure you have exact same stuff on the other machine. Otherwise the specified packages get updated everytime you update your system. I learned that the hard way by having to wait for latex to download everytime I updated my system.