Ancestors

Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-18 at 17:07

I just published some notes about #guix the-system and the-package-management-system.

https://lovergine.com/an-initial-dive-into-guix.html

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Toot

Written by Andres Moreno on 2024-08-19 at 17:47

@gisgeek

The FHS problem you mentioned in the article is mitigated with

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-filesystem-hierarchy-standard-comes-to-guix-containers/

Some Guix users recommend that one run everything using Guix Shell, so this is not much of a limitation.

YMMV

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Descendants

Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-19 at 19:14

@monkey1 yes, I know. I see currently problems in running products that require privileged execution to finalize. Containers in those cases generally use mixed modes, e.g. apptainer. Anyway I agree, in many cases that can solve the issue.

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Written by Andres Moreno on 2024-08-19 at 21:17

@gisgeek

I think Guix forces a rethinking of containers--the "lift and shift" approach is not likely to work.

The fact that Guile has a very robust wrapper on POSIX allows folks to try things that would be unthinkable in other distros.

Lots of sharp edges still. I know Guix would never fly at most corporations.

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