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To: Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 21:08, Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com> wrote:
>
> I like the idea of collecting guix profiles in one place, and I also like=
 the suggestion to not put it right in $HOME. However, I don't think profil=
es belong in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, for the simple reason that they are not conf=
iguration. If you really want to follow the xdg basedir spec, they would go=
 in $XDG_DATA_HOME (~/.local/share). Personally, I already keep my profiles=
 in ~/.local/guix, which fits my brain well but is not xdg compliant either=
.

Yes, it make sense to me.

 + ~/.config/guix/current because it is configuration, somehow. Channels to=
o.
 + ~/.local/share/guix for all the other user profiles

And I agree that ~/.local/guix fits better. :-)

But one could also argument that the profiles are configuration and
not data because they are sourced. Well, bikeshedding. ;-)


https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.htm=
l

All the best,
simon