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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CGuix?= Profiles in =?utf-8?Q?Practice?=
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:12:31 +0100
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Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan@terracrypt.net> writes:

> What if something identifying the profile (directory name? config
> file?) included info about the Guix revision it was built from? That
> way a profile would be reused if it=E2=80=99s built from the same Guix
> revision, but if you switch revisions it=E2=80=99d be rebuilt.
>
> I=E2=80=99m not sure how this would interact with a profile built from pa=
ckages in multiple channels.

Absolutely, I was suggesting something similar in another thread: dump
the output of `guix describe -f channels` into the profile,
e.g. etc/channel-spec.scm.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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