Navigating the Guix Subsystems

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1 Navigating the Guix Subsystems Ludovic Courtès GNU Hackers Meeting, Rennes, August 2016

2 The Emacs of distros

3 When large numbers of nontechnical workers are using a programmable editor, they will be tempted constantly to begin programming in the course of their day-to-day lives. This should contribute greatly to computer literacy [...] Stallman, 1981

4 user freedom = access + empowerment

5 $ guix package -i emacs guile?

6 #1. Packages.

7 #2. The store.

8 build processes chroot, separate UIDs Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile Scheme (guix packages) (guix store) build daemon

9 build processes chroot, separate UIDs Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile Scheme (guix packages) (guix store) build daemon RPCs

10 build processes chroot, separate UIDs Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile, make, etc. Guile Scheme (guix packages) (guix store) build daemon RPCs

11 #3. From packages to derivations.

12 coreutils-8.24 libcap-2.24 acl gmp attr m perl gettext expat nodes guix graph --type=package coreutils

13 coreutils-8.24 libcap-2.24 acl gmp Where attr are GCC, libc, etc.? m perl gettext expat nodes guix graph --type=package coreutils

14 tar-1.28 gettext expat acl attr coreutils-8.24 libcap-2.24 perl patch sed bzip diffutils-3.3 findutils gzip-1.6 xz gcc coreutils-8.24 file-5.25 glibc-2.22 grep-2.22 glibc-utf8-locales-2.22 make-4.1 bash ld-wrapper-0 binutils gawk gmp m nodes guix graph --type=bag-emerged coreutils

15 tar-1.28 gettext expat acl attr coreutils-8.24 libcap-2.24 perl patch sed bzip diffutils-3.3 findutils gzip-1.6 xz gcc coreutils-8.24 file-5.25 glibc-2.22 grep-2.22 glibc-utf8-locales-2.22 make-4.1 bash ld-wrapper-0 binutils gawk gmp m What about the compiler s compiler, etc.? 28 nodes guix graph --type=bag-emerged coreutils

16 coreutils-8.24 perl tar-1.28 gzip-1.6 bzip xz file-5.25 diffutils-3.3 patch sed findutils gawk grep-2.22 coreutils-8.24 make-4.1 bash ld-wrapper-0 binutils gcc glibc-2.22 glibc-utf8-locales-2.22 acl gmp libcap-2.24 glibc-utf8-locales-2.22 gcc ld-wrapper-boot3-0 binutils-cross-boot make-boot0-4.1 diffutils-boot0-3.3 findutils-boot file-boot bootstrap-binaries-0 ed-1.12 libsigsegv-2.10 perl-boot perl acl gmp libcap-2.24 pkg-config-0.29 guile bison readline-6.3 ncurses-6.0 gcc-cross-boot0-wrapped texinfo-6.0 bash-static libstdc zlib perl-boot gettext-boot gcc-cross-boot glibc-bootstrap-0 gcc-bootstrap-0 linux-libre-headers gzip-1.6 gettext attr m gzip-1.6 guile-bootstrap-2.0 binutils-bootstrap-0 gettext attr m gcc-cross-boot0-wrapped glibc-intermediate-2.22 m expat lzip-1.16 pkg-config-0.29 libffi readline-6.3 libunistring libltdl libgc gmp ncurses-6.0 libatomic-ops m expat nodes guix graph --type=bag coreutils

17 (too big) 383 nodes guix graph --type=derivation coreutils

18 origin package bag build system derivation

19 #4. Operating system!

20 Linux-libre

21 Linux-libre initial RAM disk

22 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile

23 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services...

24 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services... Guile

25 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services... Guile applications

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