bug#74980: Home container do not instantiate ~/.guix-profile

bug#74980: Home container do not instantiate ~/.guix-profile

[Gabriel Wicki]

Hi there!

Invoking a home container does not create ~/.guix-profile (which in my case
is symlinked to ~/.guix-home/profile).  This leads to a problem when
testing my Emacs configuration, since I there add
~/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp to its load path.

I guess referring to ~/.guix-profile seems the smart choice, since it
could also work on home environments where I added the necessary
packages "manually" to my user's profile, so I consider only having
~/.guix-home to be somewhat off.

Any ideas on this?  Is this intended behaviour?  Is my configuration off?

bug#74980: [PATCH] home: container: Create symlink to .guix-home/profile.

[Gabriel Wicki]

* guix/scripts/home.scm: Create the symlink.

Change-Id: Ib299c53f7cd0ca6ad204325b5c150d579224afd7
---
 guix/scripts/home.scm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guix/scripts/home.scm b/guix/scripts/home.scm
index b4c82d275f..50aaf2abf6 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/home.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/home.scm
@@ -344,6 +344,10 @@ (define* (spawn-home-container home
            (primitive-load (string-append #$home "/activate"))
            (setenv "GUIX_NEW_HOME" #f)
 
+           (system* "ln" "-s"
+                    (string-append #$home-directory "/.guix-home/profile")
+                    (string-append #$home-directory "/.guix-profile"))
+
            (when term
              ;; Preserve TERM for proper interactive use.
              (setenv "TERM" term))

base-commit: c3290cee6add60b7e56f5f919d9498d78542790a
-- 
2.46.0