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Re:Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management i... by e3bc54b2 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:19AM (#27481496)
What kind of interoperability should I expect between Guix and Nix going forward? As I understand, Nix is pretty heavily reliant on systemd for running services while Guix has its own pid1. Last I read Guix was also replacing the daemon with one written in scheme. I think Guix used Nix package format (nar) at one point but not sure if that holds anymore either.

The idea of two functional, declarative package/system managers being interoperable is very exciting for me, if it meant I can use full breadth of Nixpkgs with system config declared in Guile. But is that something I can look forward to or is it too much?

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Re:Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management i... by uncletaco on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:19AM (#27483329)
Nix exists as a service for guix. All my system declarations include the nix service. But as far as interop goes I’m not really sure of the value. I think it just sounds neat but hasn’t really been thought through in terms of exactly what that would look like.
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