Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

---- On Wed, 08 May 2019 14:18:33 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote ----

 > Hiya Sirgazil, 
 >  
 > sirgazil wrote: 
 > > So, should one do the following instead? 
 > > 
 > >     $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm 
 > >     Modify the file to your liking 
 > >     $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure 
 > >     ~/path/to/my-config.scm 
 >  
 > Oh, it doesn't matter. 
 >  
 > This file can be whatever and wherever you want it to be (mine's 
 > /etc/guix/system.scm because eww ‘config’).  It's in /etc by 
 > default since that's where most people will expect it and it's the 
 > Unixly-correct place to put system-wide configuration files, and 
 > this is the mother of all system-wide configuration files :-) 
 >  
 > Now, to be blunt, I don't think 
 >  
 >  “The normal way to change the system configuration is by 
 >  updating this 
 >  file and re-running ‘guix system reconfigure’.  One should 
 >  never have 
 >  to touch files in ‘/etc’[.]” 
 >  
 > can reasonably be read as self-contradictory, but if you want to 
 > add an ‘other’ at the end I don't think anyone will object! 

Thanks for your help, Tobias :)