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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by danieldk on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:17AM (#4821701)
Then, why reinvent the obvious other wheel?

http://nixos.org/nix/

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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by dbaupp on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:23AM (#4821717)
It's not a reinvention, it's a fork: "Guix is based on the Nix package manager." [https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/]

(More info here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2012-07/msg000..., taken from icebraining below)

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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by jmtd on Friday November 23, 2012 @09:13AM (#4822238)
I'm not sure it's even a fork. It appears to plug a different backend/frontend into the nix structure, so it appears to be a "patch", for want of a better word. (at least that's what I gleaned from http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guix-ghm-2012.201...)
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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by madjar on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:24AM (#4821719)
According to the site of the project, "Guix is based on the Nix package manager."
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