From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CGuix?= Profiles in =?utf-8?Q?Practice?= =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9D?= Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:38:21 +0200 Message-ID: <874kzv9u1e.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> References: <87r231rulr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iORtM-0007bh-Hh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:38:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iORtK-0008Cd-Rd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:38:28 -0400 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:57225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iORtK-0008CF-LW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:38:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Griffin , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Alex Griffin" writes: > Great article, Pierre! I've known for a while how to do all this, but > I still just used one big profile. Following along with your article, > I finally went ahead and split it up. While I was writing the blog and asking people around, I came to realize this: it seems that most of the community doesn't use manifests or multiple profiles so much :p Which is a little ironic considering "reproducible profiles" are the flagship of Guix! ;) I hope that this article will help start a movement and get more users on multiple profiles, which will help fixing the numerous multi-profile issues that many packages suffer from: =2D Emacs =2D Aspell =2D GST plugins And probably many more... > I noticed some typos though. This line has mismatched quotes: > >> export MANPATH=3D/path/to/profile${MANPATH:+:}$MANPATH" > > And this sentence is missing a couple words in the cookbook version: > >> This means that the exact same profile can be anytime, with Will fix as soon as possible, thanks for reporting! =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAl20oK0ACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH/r6ggAlTXAKY6mQK15R+Z1F5qJl2AlYWTZ8U5JV2boCqwMQR9v5+hjDgXNn1EL R9qmP7OFa7reYH9JA0rcSbS4p/jdi0btIr95AOXwBlriSKSEvbEnEaG/nH4GlvO8 97hQl9hcF0ioOFr8t84DobP7A1rnD2eXb5tyrejPnja6Q/wX+AIBtZqzhmfWmLgb m9IwivVfhUp+Sy+QijKi0hQBWlXd+pwkI2eXArwuBPsuxivPu86ElkWPK4yDzq8I /atv5WLkwpYuofPA4zIC3nPQ3yBQBnhdxp4aS2fZRKMyS/SzX8KVNejcx+WFsger 4OOKs9AM5mafgL1dC2uvpff6N9yPdQ== =aJa0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--