Re: how can I open files through packages installed in different profiles

[gfp <gfp@posteo.at>]

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Hi Steve,

1.
thanks for the proposal. I guess it is too difficult for me at the 
moment to deal with your proposal.

2.
Until now I didn´t have any problems with different profiles.
I created profiles through the help of Gary.
He advised me to do that, so that I haven´t too many packages in my 
default profile.

3.
So when starting my laptop I open several packages, which are in 
different created profiles and everything is working well.

4.
I realised now, that, when opening Dolphin (KDE) and want to open a 
file, right click (mouse) it ask me: "open with" , arrow down (right 
side) it doesn´t show up that package with which I want to open this 
file. But when writing e.g. libreoffice it opens the file with 
libreoffice. After doing it once, libreoffice is mentioned in future in 
this list. Interestingly it opens also with a package, which is located 
in an other profile and I haven´t open this profile beforehand.
How that works, I don´t know.

5.
One question remains for me, if I update only one profile and it 
downloads all the necessary dependences, how that works for the other 
profiles which I didn´t update, also for the default profile, if I can 
call it this way.

6.
I can update all the created profiles at once, but very often I update 
only this profile, which has got a new version of one package.
e.g. one profile in which I have: icecat, ungoogled-chromium and torbrowser.

Nevertheless I didn´t have any trouble until now, no conflict between my 
"default" profile and the other, about 15 created profiles.

thanks for help

Gottfried


Am 18.11.24 um 15:58 schrieb Steve George:
> Hi Gfp,
> 
> I would suggest that you do not run multiple profiles simultaneously. You will probably run into problems, since if a library requires an interpreter and it's not in the profile it won't work, and one library will not know about another unless they are in the same profile.
> 
> If you like to keep 'sets' of packages separated using manifests then one thing you could do is to create a single 'layered manifest' (super manifest?) by stitching them all together. I wrote a post about it:
> 
> https://www.futurile.net/2022/12/23/guix-profiles-layering-at-login/
> 
> The 'user defined command' that Dolphin will be what you set for that particular MIME type. If you do a Google search for that, there's quite a few results, such as:
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293509
> 
> Hope that helps a bit
> 
> Steve / Futurile
> 
> On 15 Nov, gfp wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> Simple questions
>>
>> 1.
>> when I want to open a file in KDE Desktop through Dolphin directly, I will
>> be asked through which programme/package.
>>
>> I have many packages installed in different profiles, so the package is not
>> mentioned in the possible packages to open this file.
>>
>> The only way to open a file is, to open the package from the profile
>> beforehand,
>> and after that to open a file in pointing to this package.
>>
>> This is a disadvantage to have packages installed in different profiles.
>>
>> How can I bridge/bypass this?
>>
>> 2.
>> In MATE desktop in Caja and in KDE Dolphin it asks for the "user-defined
>> command"
>> What is the command?
>> How can I find this package stored in the store, so that I can point to it
>> in Dolphin, in the case I haven't opended the package from the profile
>> beforehand?
>> (I don't know if that will help to open a file, if I haven't earlier opened
>> this package from a profile)
>>
>>
>> thanks for help
>>
>> Gottfried
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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