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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: rg@raghavgururajan.name
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: An idea regarding Guix Profiles
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:11:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fb526713a76ad993aef59e8a944f57751e970d7.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8f07a08a-449b-6ff9-50ed-f4b7dd989114@raghavgururajan.name

Hello Raghav,

I had a similar idea a little more than a year ago:<
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00358.html>
See also <
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-01/msg00083.html>
for the discussion it spawned.

While the default profile would stay active at all times, storing
profiles in a single location would make it much easier to activate
them at a whim -- in particular also to do so from a Guix command. 
However, this change would obviously not be compatible to how Guix
functioned before and thus the proposal needs to be written with care
to at least be future-proof.  The discussion has stalled since,
probably because I had not put enough thought into the initial idea.

I am planning to revive this idea in a somewhat different form later
this year, but I still need time to formalize my thoughts.

Regards,
Leo



             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-28  8:11 Leo Prikler [this message]
2021-01-28 10:17 ` An idea regarding Guix Profiles Leo Prikler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-28  4:05 Raghav Gururajan
2021-01-28  7:54 ` Maxime Devos
2021-01-28  8:23 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-28 10:35 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2021-01-28 21:18 ` Raghav Gururajan
2021-01-28 21:43   ` Raghav Gururajan

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