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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: [ SPAM? ] Re: Collect guix profiles in single directory.
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:06:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftfvq3zi.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ2_ToFRjaZrqpDd5R=dmSPr8yPnTgieRjd0RtP-rOxcrQ@mail.gmail.com>

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zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

>> 1. ~/.config/guix/current is special in that it's the channel of Guix
>> and it's installed by "guix pull" unlike other channels.  Thus I don't
>> think it belongs to GUIX_PROFILE_DIR.  That said, we could introduce
>> another environment variable for those who want to move it somewhere
>> else.
>
> This environment variable already exists: XDG_CONFIG_HOME, I guess.
> See 'config-directory' in utils.scm, used by pull.scm.

Thanks for checking!

>> 2. Indeed profiles should be loaded in a well known order.  I suggest to
>> follow the C alphabetical order.  Should "default" be sourced before the
>> rest?  Maybe not.  I suggest we leave it to the user at this point.
>
> By time creation/modification?

Any particular reason?  I'm not sure this is a good approach because it
would entail that the order would change depending on the user
interaction with the profile.  For instance, with profiles A and B, A
comes before B, if I update B then B would come before A.

Thoughts?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-31 11:07 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               ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
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

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