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GNU Guix depends on the following packages:
Unless --disable-daemon was passed to configure, the
following packages are also needed:
When a working installation of the Nix package manager is available, you
can instead configure Guix with --disable-daemon. In that case,
Nix replaces the three dependencies above.
Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same store
between both. To do so, you must pass configure not only the
same --with-store-dir value, but also the same
--localstatedir value (the latter is essential because it
specifies where the database that store meta-data about the store is
located, among other things.) The default values are
--with-store-dir=/nix/store and --localstatedir=/nix/var.
Note that --disable-daemon is orthogonal and is not required if
your goal is to share the same store as Nix.