Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op do 05-05-2022 om 19:27 [+0200]:
> > Multiple profiles can already be managed in a declarative manner:
> > "guix shell -m manifest.scm".  I'd say that Guix Home adds some
> > impurity (‘guix home reconfigure’ installs/removes/replaces some
> > symlinks in $HOME, which is a form of mutation).  Though maybe some
> > people want to keep all their manifests together and don't mind the
> > little extra mutation?
> We're not talking about the same kind of profile management here.  By
> profile management I mean creating, updating, modifying and deleting
> a
> profile that has the same basic properties as ~/.guix-profile or
> ~/.guix-home.  Shell profiles are not that.

... ~/.guix-profile and ~/.guix-home profiles do not have the same
basic properties?  ~/.guix-profile is to be managed imperatively with
"guix install", "guix package -u" or such or semi-imperatively mostly-
declaratively with "guix package -m" , whereas ~/.guix-home is in
theory only to be managed with "guix home reconfigure"?"

And except for not having a location in $HOME somewhere and not being
mutatable, if that's you mean, "guix shell" produces the same kind of
profile as "guix home" AFAICT?

Or are you referring to home-shell-profile-configuration, which is yet
another thing?

Greetings,
Maxime