From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Dec 08 12:55:49 2022 Received: (at 17152) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Dec 2022 17:55:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58174 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p3L7d-0001lz-AV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:55:49 -0500 Received: from cyberdimension.org ([80.67.179.20]:37480 helo=gnutoo.cyberdimension.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p3L7b-0001ls-JH for 17152@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:55:48 -0500 Received: from gnutoo.cyberdimension.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cyberdimension.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id eb81dfe1 for <17152@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from primary_laptop (localhost [::1]) by gnutoo.cyberdimension.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 62f7388d for <17152@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 18:55:20 +0100 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli To: 17152@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: GNU Guix backend for PackageKit / Gnome-Software Message-ID: <20221208185245.0eb6b800@primary_laptop> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.30; i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 17152 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi, How does it work when Nix is installed on top of another distribution? Is there something to handle that in packagekit? Or with distributions like Ubuntu that also use snap, it is is handled transparently somehow? Or do users have to choose which package manager to use? I wonder that because I'd be interested in somehow supporting the package manager of a foreign distribution (Parabola) to have an unified configuration that can work also when guix / guix home is used on top of another distribution[1]. [1] There are various advantages of using the distribution package manager instead of guix home in that case, like having the packages installed system wide for instance, or having the packages take less space. Denis.