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GNU Guix launchesGNU Guix launchesPosted Nov 27, 2012 12:21 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: GNU Guix launches by vonbrand Parent article: GNU Guix launches I've no idea how awful Plan 9 smells, but if you think that this sort of idea hasn't been thought of a thousand times then you might have the special mindset necessary to get a job in the patent office :-)
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GNU Guix launches Posted Nov 27, 2012 13:01 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] No slur to Plan 9 meant: It is just that in Plan 9 every user can tailor exactly what view of the filesystem she gets. So you can keep a bunch of legacy/experimental stuff lying around to mix and match. Leads to the proverbial combinatorial explosion, for sure; but if they ask for it (and are willing to pay the rather steep price), who's to complain.
GNU Guix launches Posted Nov 27, 2012 14:05 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Well, lots of people are "willing to pay the rather steep price" given the scale on which Java libraries and applications are distributed and acquired, and given the proliferation of various language-specific packaging mechanisms.
I find it odd that people don't want to let users install system packages in an unprivileged fashion but will entertain stuff like Apache Maven pulling hundreds of .jar files down from apache.org or some random mirror.
Instead of giving people access to a potentially limited selection of official packages, people probably go off and download all sorts of random things from the Internet instead. The readership here may be experts at finding the official upstream locations for software, but I suggest that they observe non-experts searching the Internet to see how the typical experience turns out.
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