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There’s a New Package Manager in Town

Ludovic Courtès introduced the new project Friday with his post to the new Guix mailing list. In it he explained since Guix is approaching its first alpha release, it was time to meet the public. Courtès said that Guix will not only provide standard package management capabilities, but also things like “transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection.”

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