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GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. Besides the usual package management features, it also supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, per-user profiles, and much more. It is similar in design to the Nix package manager.
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Packages>20,000
Requires rootNo
Pros
Pro Can always roll back to a safe state
Guix creates new profile generations for each operation. If anything goes wrong, a simple --roll-back gets you immediately back to the previous, working, generation. Because it is a purely functional package management system, generations don't affect each other, so you're back to the exact same state as before : still working.
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GNU Guix
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Pro
Can setup a shell which has exactly the defined libraries availablePro
Can always roll back to a safe statePro
No side effects when building packagesPro
Doesn't require root privilegesPro
Can create independent packagesPro
Can build containers right-away, from docker to tarballsPro
Easy to add your own packages