Guix: From transparent and verifiable to long-term reproducible research?
summary
Guix is presented as a multi-role tool (package manager, build system, OS, and Guile/Scheme library) that supports reproducible software deployment for research by enabling user-specific packages, transactional upgrades/rollbacks, containers and VMs, and coexistence with Debian. The talk explains Guix features for creating customized dependency variants (different versions, compilers, build options) and capturing build provenance via Guix snapshots (guix time-machine), and describes an integration that uses the Software Heritage archive to ensure long-term access to source code for reproducible verification.
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