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

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

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