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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map

Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

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The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:

  - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
    Guile;

  - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
    GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
    promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system.

Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal.  Below
is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of the Guix System Distribution.
There will be a few 0.x releases by then to give the new features more
exposure and testing.

You're welcome to discuss this road map on guix-devel@gnu.org or #guix on
the Libera Chat IRC network!

* Features scheduled for 1.0

  - larger & more robust build farm
    + we need a powerful, dedicated front-end
    + armhf-linux build machine
    + leave Hydra in favor of 'guix publish' + custom code?
  - more OS features
    + LVM support
    + encrypted root
    + configurable name service switch
    + whole-system unit tests, using VMs
  - more service definitions
    + mcron, postfix(?), wicd(?), etc.
  - better 'guix system'
    + 'reconfigure' should be able to restart non-essential services
    + support for '--list-generations' and '--delete-generations'
  - better 'guix pull'
    + using Git to fetch the source instead of re-downloading everything
    + build more quickly
    + install new .mo files and new manual
    + authentication of the Guix source: use signed commits?
  - simplified, purely declarative service list in 'operating-system'
    + it should be possible to inspect the service instance declarations and
      settings
  - GUIs
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# GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
# Copyright © 2012-2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
# Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov &lt;nikita@karetnikov.org&gt;
# Copyright © 2020 Simon Tournier &lt;zimon.toutoune@gmail.com&gt;
#
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#
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#
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# along with GNU Guix.  If not, see &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.

#
# Test the `guix package&apos; command-line utility.  This test requires network
# access and is skipped when that is lacking.
#

guix package --version

readlink_base ()
{
    basename `readlink &quot;$1&quot;`
}

# Return true if a typical shebang in the store would exceed Linux&apos;s default
# static limit.
shebang_too_lo