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I'm very fond of Guix for a few reasons:
guix upgrade
, especially as packages that are less trivial to build also end up more likely to not be available from the CI server)guix install --with-source
,--with-branch
,-with-commit
, etc)Package Management section of Guix manual
Now, one thing I don't like about Guix is that its unconventional approach to package management often makes building more complicated packages a challenge, because those packages have to be patched to behave properly in the Guix environment.