Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]>: > () Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> > () Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:27:44 +0300 > > I have definite use cases in mind where I might be interested > in migrating to Guix. I hope to be able to investigate Guix > one day. However, it's a complex beast, and the introductory > material hasn't been prepared with my use cases in mind. So > there is a bit of a hill to climb. > > What use cases do you have in mind?
Here's one: I want to package a development library much like an RPM package. In fact, RPM would be just fine except it expects to be installed *by root* on *the computer*. I would need the development library to be installed *by a regular user* under *a directory*. Here's another one: I have a package dependency diamond. Package A depends on packages B and C. B depends on package D ver 1.1. C depends on package D ver 1.2. I want D ver 1.2 to be able to declare binary compatibility with D ver 1.1 so the dependency diamond can be resolved by the packaging system without touching package B's dependencies. Marko
