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> However, if we're going to expect more, it should look more like the new Guile site and less like this.

I was referring to both sites. Both the Guix and Guile sites are better than your typical impenetrable GNU project website. Guix, unlike Guile, isn't a mature project, so it's content isn't going to be all that great.

Keep in mind that the site is for _GuixSD_, not Guix itself. That's the reason for that blurb in the first bullet point: they're differentiating it from other distros not package managers.

You're wrong about the second bulletpoint. That state quite clearly what the benefits are: "transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and more". That's all because it's functional, but simply saying that Guix a functional package manager doesn't really communicate what's going on. Stating that Guix is declarative doesn't tell you anything: RPM .spec files are mostly declarative, but simply being declarative doesn't give you the benefits of a functional package manager, like Nix and Guix. Nix's (and Guix's) declarative nature is a side-effect of their functional nature, nothing more.

They don't care about Nix, not in the slightest. Nix is a means to an end, nothing more.

Could the Guix site do with improvement? Certainly. Do I think the Guile site is better? Definitely! But compared to the average GNU project site, the Guix site isn't all that bad.



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