From: "Raghav Gururajan" <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Leo Prikler" <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Collect guix profiles in single directory.
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:44:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13f0e30551c27859ef5ee7333a4657e3@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blrefavb.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello Ludo!
> To me, the most important aspect of your proposal is having all profiles
> in one place (Konrad proposed something similar recently, well, “last
> year.” :-))
>
> Like I wrote then, ‘guix package --list-profiles’ was an attempt at
> making it easier to locate profiles, even if they’re not in the same
> directory, so that you can easily operate on them. What Konrad noted is
> that this returns all the profiles, including
> ~/.config/guix/current-kind of profiles, which may be inconvenient.
>
> I’m generally wary of enforcing arbitrary conventions, such as a
> specific directory to store all profiles, but at the same time I agree
> that this can be convenient, so I’m a bit split!
>
> Also, such a change would need a transition plan: what does ‘-p’ become, etc.
>
> Thoughts?
I just subscribed to guix-devel and happen to see this email.
I had similar thoughts before, that is putting all profiles under single directory.
I was conceptualizing this:
The way we track or mark a particular generations as current generations, I think we can apply same concept to profiles. For example, instead of having 'default-profile' in one directory and others in 'extra-profile' directories; all profiles will be put under one directory. There will be first initial profile '0' created automatically for each user; just like how system generation '0' is created. Then, a user can create as many profiles as they want. It will be tracked as 1, 2, 3 and so on. But here we can a tag something like 'default'. similar to 'current' tag for generations. User can change which profile to be default through `--change-default'; just like '--switch-generation'.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-08 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 10:59 Collect guix profiles in single directory Leo Prikler
2020-01-06 18:55 ` zimoun
2020-01-06 20:07 ` Alex Griffin
2020-01-06 22:52 ` zimoun
2020-01-07 13:02 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-06 19:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 11:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-08 13:48 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-08 14:16 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-30 19:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-30 20:08 ` [ SPAM? ] " Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 7:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 8:46 ` zimoun
2020-01-31 9:29 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 12:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 12:56 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 13:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 11:06 ` [ SPAM? ] " Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 9:18 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 13:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 14:34 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 15:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 15:38 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 15:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 11:44 ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
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