bug#47265: Guix System: improve support for intentional statefullness.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vitaliy Shatrov <guix.vits@disroot.org> skribis:

> Recently i saw WebKit failing to build on Cuirass.
>
> For Guix System it ought to be in the Manual:
> "Setting up FHS for auxiliary applications obtained from upstream Free 
> binaries".
>
> This way Joe has a base system which is obviously important to keep 
> reprobuilt.
> Then Joe happily pile things on top of it, rather than install Guix on top of 
> legacy.
>
> Will definitely try this myself, but if someone already has notes and so, do 
> share.

To be clear, you’re advocating for the ability to create an FHS
environment, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.