Dear Guix,

I'd like to change the way the symlinks to custom profiles are created.
Here's what currently happens:

$ guixr package -i hello -p guix-profiles/test
$ ls -l guix-profiles
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user group 25 Jul  3 19:53 test -> guix-profiles/test-1-link
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user group 51 Jul  3 19:53 test-1-link -> /gnu/store/...6qbaps-profile

Now, that symlink is broken.
Instead, I'd like to have it always use absolute paths:

$ guixr package -i hello -p guix-profiles/test
$ ls -l guix-profiles
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roel users 36  3 jul 19:56 test -> /home/user/guix-profiles/test-1-link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roel users 51  3 jul 19:56 test-1-link -> /gnu/store/...6qbaps-profile

This symlink isn't broken.

In this patch I implemented this behavior by modifying
canonicalize-profile to return an absolute path when it's not
“~/.guix-profile”.

I hope we can merge this, or a similar solution so that creating
profiles in custom locations is a little more robust.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen