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Provide and/or document a way to get an FHS environment

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Vitaliy Shatrov <guix.vits <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 47265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47265: Guix System: improve support for intentional statefullness.
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:44:10 +0100

Hi,

Vitaliy Shatrov <guix.vits <at> disroot.org> skribis:

> Recently i saw WebKit failing to build on Cuirass.
>
> For Guix System it ought to be in the Manual:
> "Setting up FHS for auxiliary applications obtained from upstream Free binaries".
>
> This way Joe has a base system which is obviously important to keep reprobuilt.
> Then Joe happily pile things on top of it, rather than install Guix on top of legacy.
>
> Will definitely try this myself, but if someone already has notes and so, do share.

To be clear, you’re advocating for the ability to create an FHS
environment, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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