GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix (opens in new tab)

cross-posted from: [ > Here, my summary of key features and decisions of Guix: > > 1. Guix is a package manager that can (optionally) run on top of Linux distributions like Debian or Arch (I use it successfully for both) or other POSIX systems, like cargo, pip, conda or Conan. In difference to the pip and cargo package managers, it is language-agnostic, supports many different build systems and languages, and features around 31000 packages now. > 2. Guix allows to define a fully reproducible ...