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functional package management
with GNU Guix
with GNU Guix for developers & power users Package managers - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
with GNU Guix for developers & power users Package managers - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
functional package management with GNU Guix for developers & power users Package managers are really useful. Package managers are really useful. But they can be so frustrating! Old software Version conflicts Suspenseful upgrades The
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Package managers are really useful.
But they can be so frustrating!
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Old software Version conflicts Suspenseful upgrades The only way is forward Changes affect all users
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because package managers are
imperative & stateful
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big binary bundles?
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big binary bundles
are indistinguishable from
giving up
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Functional packaging
headers sources build tools libraries ...
cabba9e-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ...
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Functional packaging
cabba9e-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ... dedbeef-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ...
Different inputs? Different outputs. Same inputs? Same output!
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GNU Guix
Guix client
(guix packages) (guix store)
RPCs Build daemon Isolated build processes
chroot with declared inputs
Store
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 43 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 43 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 43 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 43 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 43 /gnu/store rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 43 /gnu/store rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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#guix on irc.freenode.net http://gnu.org/s/guix
rekado@elephly.net