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by taylanub 4224 days ago
Purely functional package management (PFPM) gives us reproducible builds; other package management systems don't. 1/0 = ∞. Therefore PFPM is infinitely better than non-PF PM. ;-P

And my reasons for choosing Guix over Nix would be: fully-free GNU system, doesn't use systemd (no hate, just a preference), uses Scheme/Guile for everything from init system to PM.

(Add possible future Guile/Emacs integration to the mix, and that Guile might enter even more GNU software (e.g. it's in GCC, GDB, and Make already), and we get an interesting picture of a pseudo-Lisp Machine... I'm thrilled, personally.)