[Bio-packaging] testing out guix

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 21/06/15 20:10, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Since we are adding packages to GNU Guix at such a rapid rate, I
>> propose we announce them here too when they go in.
> I agree!
OK, will do. FYI I won't be able to keep this rate up, I'm just obsessed 
right now so it makes a nice a hobby, and it is nice to finally 
contribute to a GNU project.

Do you imagine that we are at a stage where we could import packages 
wholesale in an optimistic fashion e.g. import all the rubygems on 
biogems.info? It might be OK if only most of them work, if they are 
defined in a separate place. For the everyday user who knows nothing 
about guix beyond "guix package -i", a chance of working is better than 
no chance? Certainly this is a departure from the well curated packages 
getting into the main repo (as it should be - I'm not suggesting to 
change that).

And since I'm here, I notice bedtools is up to .24 on github, but .22 in 
guix (which you wrote). There are some syntax changes though e.g. my 
false bug report
https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2/issues/257
What is the update procedure given there's a few tools that rely on this?

ben