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Re:Why GNU Guix Matters by rowanG077 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:08AM (#29611817)
Isn't embedded shell scripts exactly what you want though? I can't imagine having the flexibility of configuring entire unix systems without beeing able to ever touch a shell script. Unless you are writing shell scripts in some kind of meta language, but that's just writing shell scripts in another form.

In fact I just spend 5 minutes to search for the source of a few Guix packages and I couldn't find it. I found this: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/ which is a meager list without any link to the packaging source. Huge red flag for a distro.

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Re:Why GNU Guix Matters by nextaccountic on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:55AM (#29612959)
> I found this: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/ which is a meager list without any link to the packaging source.

I clicked the first

https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/python-pyxel-1.4.3/

It says "Package source: game-development.scm" linking to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

It's a lisp code that does what a shell script might do, but declaratively. Indeed it isn't much different from an Arch Linux PKGBUILD.

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