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<civodul>which project idea do you find interesting? <ashmew2>i like the package management through emacs ,civodul <ashmew2>also working on integratieng a desktop environment like Fluxbox seems like a decent deal. <civodul>Fluxbox is just a WM, so it should be quite easy <civodul>i don't want to discuss much right now because i'm at work <ashmew2>yeah , big guns like Gnome/KDE/LXDE should be more challenging :P <civodul>would you like to send a proposal, etc. on the list? <ashmew2>i also posted on the bug mailing list for guix. <ashmew2>civodul, but its only a avery rough draft till now. I wanna get involved with open source, i love emacs XD <civodul>what experience do you have with Emacs, and Scheme? <ashmew2>civodul, ive been using GNU/Linux as a primary OS for a few years now, Emacs ive been using for a year almost. I try to do everything with emacs, from text editing to editing Hex Bytes of image files at times. <ashmew2>i have no prior experience with Lisp or its dialects, but i have a couple of years on C/C++/Qt/Gtk <ashmew2>i can learn if the need arises, i want to learn. <ashmew2>ive always been interested in programming for open source, just college and all here are very time intensive. But if i get into an internship program i can actually devote 40-45 hours a week <civodul>you can give it a try and report any problems *CaptainLex points at CaptainLex|AFK <CaptainLex>civodul: I have a question about guix philosophy, by the way! <CaptainLex>Is per-user package installation and user-permission level capabilities a special feature that is for some reason off-limits (or more difficult) for package managers operating in an imperative style, or is it an unrelated decision? <civodul>CaptainLex: per-user package installation comes as a bonus, so to speak <civodul>a side effect of the whole architecture <civodul>there are good papers at nixos.org about the inception of all this <CaptainLex>civodul: I see. Well, I'm a fan. But I must ask: doesn't storage space become a serious issue? Or is the responsible user expected to run gc when they determine the platform is stable? <civodul>not an issue, especially since there's automatic "deduplication" <civodul>so if you have 5 variants of glibc sharing half of the files, you don't pay that much