[ArneBab]

I ran Guix as user-specific overlay on my Gentoo box for some time. It was pretty neat and I thought about using it for cross-distro deployment of libraries I need for development.

About half a year ago I ran into problems with updating and did not have the time to fix it (stuff simply did not build - I did not try the --with-source trick).

I hope that a reinstall with the new version fixes that.

What sold it to me was that when the system breaks during update, everything is still in a working state. → http://draketo.de/light/english/install-gnu-guix-03 My son once found the power-connector of my Gentoo box while I was running updates and hit the pretty red glowing button. It took me three days to recover the system…

[aidenn0]

Do you have a specific guide you followed for trying that? I've been using gentoo for a while, and this sounds like a good way to try guix or nix.