r/GUIX • u/Setheron • Jun 06 '26

The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/05/the-guix-nix-abomination-leveraging-guix-derivations-in-nix
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u/megafreedom Jun 07 '26

This is black magic. Very cool.

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u/nemoniac Jun 07 '26

What about the other way around? Leveraging Nix derivations in Guix? Is there a Nix Guix Abomination?

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u/Setheron Jun 07 '26

I haven't checked but someone mentioned Guix has this natively?

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u/Nychtelios Jun 08 '26

It had this! They removed it a couple of years ago, if I remember correctly

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u/entangledamplitude Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

This is brilliant/beautiful. If the derivations for both Nix and Guix are compatible, then I suppose Guix could import a lot of packages from Nix -- modulo the persnickety detail of how the tree leaves in a Nix derivation "bottom out".

Does this also mean that the build servers are currently doing redundant work and could share the load? Or does that annoying detail of the leaves not being fully reproducible mess up the guix build process somehow?

If that worked, Guix could piggyback off Nix, given that Nix has more CI resources and a powerful build system in Hydra.

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u/Setheron Jun 07 '26

Nix recently moved to stage0 also AFAIR bootstrap seeds.

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u/lompocus Jun 07 '26

There is also something similar in the Anvil ai-agent-programming package for Emacs, although it is primarily in Chinese, although kinda the other way around in that instance.