[Bio-packaging] Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Cook, Malcolm <MEC at stowers.org> writes:
> > + Guix development is open source.  It is open to input from all
> >   community members.
> 
> It’s free software ;)
> 
> Maybe it’s also good to mention that you do not need to rely on Guix
> upstream to add packages.  It is trivial to use custom packages with
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.

It can't be overstated *how* trivial it is. I've found that users of
mutable-state package managers just don't believe me when I tell them.
It's even easy to have out-of-tree packages, pulled in with
GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, that depend on in-tree packages or package updates
that you haven't upstreamed yet.