Debian switching to GUIX
How realistic would that actually be? I mean there is no law that dicates .deb has to stay forever. Just pondering what it would actually take to do such a switch.
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@mray Were you referring to the Debian project switching to use Guix packaging?
Charles Stanhope at 2016-11-17T17:17:12Z
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@Charles ☕ Stanhope Oh that's interesting.
But that would be a huge move... it feels hard to believe that it would happen.
@Christopher Allan Webber I agree. That does seem a bit like moving a mountain. So much infrastructure (social, technical, and knowledge) built around a packaging formats. But your own efforts demonstrate that there could be a way forward if a distribution was motivated.
I was referring to moving the project over. I know it sounds grotesque, but it opens the question of: Is Debain bound to grow old and die with this one package manager - or will it renew that part of its OS some day eventually? If so - what would it take, what would it be?