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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> Anyway, what does work is something like:
>>   $ guix-package --profile=3D$HOME/.guix-profile --install=3Dhello
>
> This worked, but in a rather strange way. .guix-profile did not exist
> yet. It was created as a symbolic link to the new file
> .guix-profile-1-link, itself a symbolic link to
> /nix/store/1n6bpxkjq2w1m8nlyc6c6bpf0y8rspi0-user-environment .
>
> I deleted the redirection and let .guix-profile point to /nix/store/...
> directly. Then adding a second package recreates the previous situation,
> with .guix-profile-1-link pointing to a different user environment
> in /nix/store. And after removing the second package, I get a
> .guix-profile-2-link pointing to the previous user environment in
> /nix/store. Interesting!

This is expected.  As with nix-env, there=E2=80=99d normally be a
~/.guix-profile pointing to
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/profile, which would itself point
to profile-X-link in the same directory (where X is the generation
number.)  So what you=E2=80=99re observing is basically this.

> As for the rough edges, installing the hello package twice results in
> an error message, too.

Commit 1c67d63 fixes that.

> Another question: My guix source and compile directory gets populated
> with symbolic links t-profile* to files /nix/store/*user-environment
> that survive even to "make distclean". I suppose I can safely delete them?
> If yes, could they be deleted by "make clean"?

Yes.  These were leftovers from tests/guix-package.sh.  I think 7a6548c
solves that.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.