<story><title>Introducing GNU Guix</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-11/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>Debian&apos;s dpkg and apt are both GPL2+. What&apos;s the reason they are reinventing the wheel here? Is there some kind of licence incompatibility that the GNU project cares about? Is there some kind of major architectural difference? Why is it important enough to fragment Free Software developers over?&lt;p&gt;I feel that this should be answered in an FAQ, but I can&apos;t find the answer anywhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing GNU Guix</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-11/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>&amp;#62;  A distribution built by GNU hackers is a great opportunity to improve consistency and cohesion in GNU!&lt;p&gt;Because the existing fragmentation of GNU package management is too confusing, so we need a new standard for everyone to rally round.&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/927/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://xkcd.com/927/&lt;/a&gt;]</text></comment>