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+title: My First GNU Guix Patch
+date: 2013-10-16 21:00
+tags: gnu, guix, scheme, guile, wsu
+summary: I packaged libtheora for GNU Guix
+---
+
+Over the weekend, I decided to try out GNU Guix: A fully functional
+package manager based on Nix and a distribution of the GNU system. I’m
+a big proponent of GNU Guile, thus I was excited to see a DSL for
+package management written with Guile.
+
+I was told that libtheora would be pretty easy to package, and it
+was. Here’s what the package definition looks like:
+
+```scheme
+(define libtheora
+  (package
+    (name "libtheora")
+    (version "1.1.1")
+    (source (origin
+             (method url-fetch)
+             (uri (string-append "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-"
+                                 version ".tar.xz"))
+             (sha256
+              (base32
+               "0q8wark9ribij57dciym5vdikg2464p8q2mgqvfb78ksjh4s8vgk"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (inputs `(("libvorbis" ,libvorbis)))
+    ;; The .pc files refer to libogg.
+    (propagated-inputs `(("libogg" ,libogg)))
+    (synopsis "Library implementing the Theora video format")
+    (description
+     "The libtheora library implements the ogg theora video format,
+a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose
+compressed video format.")
+    (license license:bsd-3)
+    (home-page "http://xiph.org/theora/")))
+```
+
+Pretty slick, eh? Now, I’m starting to work on packaging SDL (1.2
+and 2) and the SDL extensions (gfx, ttf, etc.), which are not quite as
+easy. I hope to package all of the dependencies that guile-2d will
+need to be available as a Guix package.