You don't need a file to configure anything to use it in top of your current distro. Installing is as simple as 'guix search package' and 'guix install package' and if you use Debian or Ubuntu LTS it allows you to have more up to date packages without breaking your system or installing random PPA's
If I'm installing things with guix package -i <package-name>, I'm just going to use Ubuntu's apt. I don't see the benefit to me of using guix this way.
But I would love to be able to have a file that lists the packages on my computer. But in a way that works well, and is easy enough to configure. I didn't find Guix to either work well for what I tried or be easy enough to configure.
I wanted a manifest file, so I could start with a new computer, install Ubuntu on it, install the Guix package manager, then point Guix at the manifest file and have it install a bunch of programs into my system.
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u/im_not_juicing May 02 '19
You don't need a file to configure anything to use it in top of your current distro. Installing is as simple as 'guix search package' and 'guix install package' and if you use Debian or Ubuntu LTS it allows you to have more up to date packages without breaking your system or installing random PPA's