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Subject: Re: [PATCH] $HOME/.guix-profile considered harmful.
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To: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
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Hello,

John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:

> I have my /home NFS mounted (not uncommon in large networks, I think).
> Unfortunately this does not play nicely with guix's convention of setting
> $PATH &c to $HOME/.guix-profile and then linking $HOME/.guix-profile to
> %state-directory/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix_profile - for the obvious r=
eason
> that %state-directory could be different on each workstation - in which c=
ase
> $HOME/.guix-profile will be a dead link.

It=E2=80=99s true that %state-directory could differ on each machine.  I th=
ink
it=E2=80=99s uncommon though.

I understand your concern, but I agree with Ricardo that what you
suggest is not strictly required: commonly (my guess), people having
/home on NFS won=E2=80=99t have the problem you describe.

> I'm not sure exactly what benefit the ~/.guix-profile convention brings u=
s, except
> perhaps that it is easy to remember.

=E2=80=A6 and easy to type, and quite =E2=80=9Cnatural=E2=80=9D.  These are=
 the main reasons I
guess, but they=E2=80=99re quite important.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.