Christopher Baines

Minimalism is a useful perspective in software projects, and this talk will explore how minimalism and the related concepts of scope, convergence and efficiency seem to apply to distributions. My current focus is GNU Guix, but in this talk I'll compare and contrast with other distributions as well.

The GNU Guix package manager offers some useful and exciting features and properties, but with this comes some options about how to make use of these.

This talk will explore different ways in which Guix packages can be used, and what these different ways offer in terms of distributing, reproducing, versioning and isolating packages.