[tetris11]

I love Guile over Nix syntax, but the one killer feature Nix has that Guix doesn’t is making a single static binary of common programs and then deploying them elsewhere.

In Nix, this is a single flag. In Guix, you either deploy with all libraries on a custom /guix path, or nothing.

[dhon_]

How do you do it in nix?

[r14c]

Sounds like nix-bundle, but that's not a standard feature.

[tetris11]

    nix build nixpkgs#pkgsStatic.emacs

So, it's not so much a static build from a flag, as it is a large corpus of statically defined recipes independent from the other packages that you can build from

[kwk1]

Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this?

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

[tetris11]

No, it produces a tree of libraries that you have to untar on the host machine. If you dont have root, then unpacking to /gnu/store is impossible

[kwk1]

I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appimage format output.

[tetris11]

I think I tried with this flag, but either it was incompatible with a cross-compile target, or it did not support my target arch properly