Making a Guix plugin for Gnome Software

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Hi,

I would like to port the Guix package manager to gnome-software. My first try was to make a PackageKit backend for it, but I’m having trouble having it play well with gnome-software.

Do you think it is easier making a PackageKit backend or a gnome-software plugin? What are the notable differences?

Thanks in advance, Noé

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Yes, this would be better done in PackageKit. Any distro which uses packages is better off writing a PackageKit backend rather than a gnome-software backend because PackageKit is the basis for more package managers.