Hi Gary,

thank you very much for sharing your Emacs manifest.

I tried to do what you said.

I created a manifest for Emacs only.

After doing it, Guix asked me to set the PATH.

I did it and after that this Emacs Manifest changed my general profile.
It became my general profile.
I couldn’t use my other programmes any more.
So I had to do a rollback.

1.
I don’t know what I did wrong.

2.
AFAIK to create a manifest is not yet a profile.
I have to create a manifest and then to create a profile with it.
Am I right?


2.
If so, after creating a manifest, which commands do I have to use to 
make it a separate profile?

Probably to generate a manifest and make it a separate profile goes 
together, but I don’t know how to do it.


Kind regards

Gottfried


> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:10:38 -0500
> From: Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org>
> To: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>


> I do manage all of my Emacs packages with Guix. I list `emacs` and all
> of its packages in a manifest file (emacs.scm). It looks like this with
> my custom packages elided:
> 
> ```
> (use-modules ((gnu packages) #:select (specifications->manifest)))
> 
> (specifications->manifest
>   (list "emacs"
>         "emacs-adoc-mode"
>         "emacs-alsamixer-el"
>         "emacs-async"
>         "emacs-calibredb"
>         "emacs-cider"
>         "emacs-clojure-mode"
>         "emacs-company"
>         "emacs-crdt"
>         "emacs-csv-mode"
>         "emacs-elpher"
>         "emacs-emms"
>         "emacs-eww-lnum"
>         "emacs-exwm"
>         "emacs-flycheck"
>         "emacs-flymake-kondor"
>         "emacs-flyspell-correct"
>         "emacs-forge"
>         "emacs-geiser"
>         "emacs-geiser-guile"
>         "emacs-gnuplot"
>         "emacs-google-translate"
>         "emacs-helm"
>         "emacs-helm-ag"
>         "emacs-helm-descbinds"
>         "emacs-helm-swoop"
>         "emacs-htmlize"
>         "emacs-magit"
>         "emacs-markdown-mode"
>         "emacs-nov-el"
>         "emacs-ob-async"
>         "emacs-org"
>         "emacs-org-pomodoro"
>         "emacs-ox-gfm"
>         "emacs-paredit"
>         "emacs-pdf-tools"
>         "emacs-pinentry"
>         "emacs-rjsx-mode"
>         "emacs-shroud"
>         "emacs-telephone-line"
>         "emacs-treemacs"
>         "emacs-vterm"
>         "emacs-web-mode"
>         "emacs-which-key"
>         "mu"))
> ```
> 
> I actually split up all the user packages on my system into manifests
> and isntall each one into its own profile, which I then activate on
> startup. However, that's not really necessary for this example. You can
> install the manifest packages above into your user profile with this
> command:
> 
> ```
> guix package -m emacs.scm
> ```

>   ~Gary
> 

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