Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released
by orangeshark on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:14AM
(#14401907)
Congrats on the release. I use GNU Guix ontop of Fedora to use some extra packages as well as commands like `guix environment` to set up a dev environment to work on projects.
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How easy/hard is it to manage? Does it conflict with Yum?
It is completely isolated from other package managers. So you can use them in harmony, and if you decide that you don't like Guix there's like 2 directories to delete.
Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released
by redtuesday on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:56AM
(#14409028)
I assume unless you use software which installs it's cache/other stuff into the user home directory, right? Then you would also need to delete these dirs as well?
Software like that exists (e.g. ibus, which creates a database and cache in the home directory), but generally I haven't had any problems with Guix on other distributions.
Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released
by redtuesday on Saturday May 27, 2017 @06:52AM
(#14429644)
Ah, good to know. Just tried sbt (build tool for scala) with Nix (have no experience with Guix, but like that everything is in the same language) and it indeed creates .ivy and .sbt caches in the home directory. Everything else goes into the store like it should.