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3 #+TITLE: What's left to do?
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12 * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
14 Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or
15 rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users
16 would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.
18 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
21 ** add guile-ncurses interface
24 ** add ‘recommends’ field
26 For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
27 ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or
28 none of the recommendations.
30 ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’
32 This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
33 environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would
36 ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs
39 (outputs '("out" "include"))
40 (propagated-build-inputs
47 * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
49 Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
51 http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge .
52 We could periodically synchronize with that.
54 * add a guildhall build system
56 The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a
57 ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
62 Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
63 per-package priorities, etc.
65 * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
67 Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be
68 run when that is defined.
71 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
73 ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
75 ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
77 See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
80 ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
82 Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
83 In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
84 Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.