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As someone who doesn't use Guix, reading this made me wonder why a "consumer" (ie. not someone running eg. corporate infrastructure or whatever) would want to use it, if something as seemingly trivial as this requires that much work.
What I mean is that I'm obviously just missing something, since there's got to be upsides to the system that make cases like this worth it.
Anybody feel like educating a dunce?
No, it's a common gripe.
I wish GUIX would just symlink libraries to standard paths instead of having to educate every single downstream tool where everything is with Env Variables
Is it such a big ask to expect bash to exist at /bin/bash?
That does sound like a reasonable ask.
What are the upsides of Guix – in your view, anyhow – that make people be OK with downsides like this? I mean, this does seem like a fairly major downside, so there's go to be fairly major upsides too, or at least I'd assume so
I just think the declarative syntax is cool, and is easier to read than Nix