MX + KDE + GNU Guix = A marriage made in heaven

[yop]

dude, unless you run your MX with GNU Guix, you're only half-way there.

Soon I will upload an MX-KDE .ISO respin with GNU Guix fully functional and distractions removed. This reproducible build system will be quite a gas!

If you cannot wait, look here: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/bl ... NSTALL.org

guix just rocks

[anticapitalista]

Explain why guix package manager is so useful to MX and ask (nicely) if our package team can create a deb package for it. Or are you saving it for your own respin?

[yop]

mate, a guix.deb package would be truely awesome. I guess it can be done. Please make sure the locale business is being taken care of, since with the binary guix install there are missing symlinks under $HOME/.guix... , I believe. If one can install a guix package without getting the dreaded "locale warning" ("cannot set locale") all is fine,

e.g.

guix package -i hello

with no warning about some locale problem.

[yop]

to find out about the usefulness of Guix please allow me to refer the the Guix homepage. It sure is a great leap forward when it comes to have reproducible builds, where the compiled binary program will have the exact same CRC for everyone who builds from a certain source-code.

The TorBrowser people had to struggle very hard to achieve this without guix. It involved a Ubuntu VM and all sorts of tedious operations. Guix just makes it so much easier!

[v3g4n]

dude, unless you run your MX with GNU Guix, you're only half-way there.

Soon I will upload an MX-KDE .ISO respin with GNU Guix fully functional and distractions removed. This reproducible build system will be quite a gas!

If you cannot wait, look here: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/bl ... NSTALL.org

guix just rocks

Are you getting close to uploading this? If not do you have an approximate timeline?

[yop]

the thumbdrive which kept the installation screwed up, gotta start anew...

[Eadwine Rose]

But you don't upload the installation? You upload the iso? I am sure you made backups?

[yop]

indeed... I found a backup recently...

[Eadwine Rose]

Good.. let us know the URL where we can download it :)

[yop]

sure, I'd love to. now the 4.8 kernel killed my sound device... omg!