Re: Introducing GNU Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Adam Spiers <address@hidden> skribis:

> So you should probably not worry too much about any overlap with Guix,
> although it *may* be instructive to consider the fundamental design
> differences between a symlink-based approach and one which does not
> rely on symlinks.

Note that Nix & Guix use one directory per package, and thus resort to
symlink forests for user environments too (see page 61 and later of
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-20120721.pdf>.)

The same effect could be achieved with a unionfs such as
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/unionfs.html>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.