Hello Jack, On 2020-03-18 20:03, Jack Hill wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I was looking through some old issue, and wondering if potluck is > still relevant now that we have channels. Reading through the initial email[0] by Andy the potlock feature seems to be way more extensive than channels: it allows one to create simple packages in an interactive manner and centralize the discoverability of such packages. Channels provide us a way to create package outise of Guix proper but finding channels containing the package you are looking for is still an unsolved problem. He even write the following: > So, remaining tasks to do: > [...] > (3) Someone needs to design and implement a "guix channel" facility to > take advantage of this branch :) Until then, GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH > and the -L argument are the things to use. > Shall we close this issue? Having an answer form Andy or Ludovic on this front you be great. [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00250.html - Brice