Bug 727367 – Support GNU Guix and/or Nix package manager

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Bug 727367 - Support GNU Guix and/or Nix package manager


Summary:	Support GNU Guix and/or Nix package manager


Status:	RESOLVED NOTGNOME

Product:	gnome-software
Classification:	Applications
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	GNOME Software maintainer(s)
QA Contact:	GNOME Software maintainer(s)

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Reported:	2014-03-30 21:46 UTC by kxra
Modified:	2014-04-01 08:23 UTC

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Description kxra 2014-03-30 21:46:27 UTC

This would be magical

Comment 1 kxra 2014-03-31 21:13:21 UTC

Reported against PackageKit here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76810

Nix here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/233

and GNU Guix here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17152

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2014-04-01 08:23:28 UTC

This isn't a GNOME bug; gnome-software just uses the PackageKit backend and the AppStream metadata to run on any distro. You don't actually have to make any changes to gnome-software to make it work :) The recent Ubuntu work was to add workarounds in libappstream-glib, which is a new dep for 3.14.