@civodul@shtwzrd@daviwil One could ask if this is a technical (maintainability, stability, risk of unimportant commit breaking entire guix, etc) or social (different maintainer teams, different release schedules, expectations on quality/stability etc) challenge, but one deeper question is: how much is possible to isolate as a minimal computing base, and is that useful? It seems modern packages are more or less circularly dependent anyway.