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-GNU Guix provides state-of-the-art package management features such as
-transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments,
-unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level
-mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as
-native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language -- which
-makes it nicely hackable.
-
-Guix may be run in single or multi-user mode (which requires the
-guix-daemon). To have the guix daemon start and stop with your host,
-add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
-
-if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.guix ]; then
- /etc/rc.d/rc.guix start
-fi
-
-and to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating it if needed):
-
-if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.guix ]; then
- /etc/rc.d/rc.guix stop
-fi
-
-The daemon requires users for building the guix packages, which should
-be added under the 'guixbuild' group.
-
-groupadd -g 316 guixbuild
-for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do
- useradd -G guixbuild \
- -d /var/empty -s `which nologin` \
- -c "Guix build user $i" -u 316 -g 316 \
- guixbuilder$i;
-done
-
-Restricting access to the daemon to only users in the guixbuild group
-is acheived by setting file permissions for the daemon's socket's folder.
-
-chgrp guixbuild /var/guix/daemon-socket
-chmod ug=rwx,o= /var/guix/daemon-socket
-
-Correct permissions must also be set for /var/guix/profiles to give
-users access.
-
-By default guix will compile in /tmp, this can be changed by exporting
-$TMPDIR. Guix will also by default store its packages in /gnu/store, to
-save space in the root partition /gnu can be mounted on another partition.
-
-Guix can either be built with the nix-daemon instead of the default
-guix-daemon or along side nix sharing the same store, both require nix
-as an optional dependency. To build with the nix-daemon use NIX="yes"
-and to share the store with nix use SHARE="yes".
-
-guile-json is an optional dependency and will allow you to use the 'guix
-import pypi' command. It is of interest primarily for developers and
-not for casual users.