firefox-wayland took all day to compile and chewed up many GB of disk space on my laptop. Not really doable on my 16GB Nexus 4 with no goddamned sdcard (gee, thanks, Google).

Thankfully guix has icecat 52, (but no chromium) precompiled, as well as prebuilt xwayland packages. However, it doesn't seem like the official guix repo doesn't precompile for aarch64.

Note: i had to add the option when starting the daemon, to use guix on my trusty mako, which sadly doesn't have all the cgroups stuff enabled in the kernel for the old 2.0.5.6 build.

It looks like nix for aarch64 users, and guix for the 32-bit crowd, at least, for now.

guix is weird, but I think I like it. It builds from source by default, and only takes binaries if you ask it to do so.

It doesn't look like guix has onboard in it, whether source or binary. Bummer. I guess I'll have to figure out how to build and package it. Sounds like fun.

Guix seems a lot like nix, but the official repo has less stuff, and it is very Stallmanite (can't blame 'em, guix is an official GNU project, after all)..

I wonder how much work it would be to write a local service to match Qt and GTK color schemes to the ambiance theme.

Much to think about over the coming days, including whether to replace my ailing mako with another mako, jump the shark to hammerhead (which has reasonably-good halium support), wait until next month to get a xperia, or hold out for the librem5.