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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: I don't understand profiles and directories
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:00:20 +0100
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HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> writes:

> On Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:05:03 CET you wrote:
>> I don=E2=80=99t think so.  It should print a file name.
> The message must have cut off, there was a full file path into `/gnu/
> store/...`.

That=E2=80=99s not correct.  This indicates that the GUIX_PROFILE variable =
is
not exported.

> Just to re-iterate, the Guix binary I'm going to=20
> invoke from the command line (`guix`) comes from this profile `~/.config/=
guix/
> current/`, while all my packages are in the `~/.guix-profile` profile,
> correct?

Yes.

> This means that the Guix binary from `~/.config/guix/current/` shadows th=
e one=20
> from `~/.guix-profile`.

There shouldn=E2=80=99t be any =E2=80=9Cguix=E2=80=9D package in ~/.guix-pr=
ofile.

>
> My complete `~/.profile` file now contains
>
>     source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"

I=E2=80=99d replace this with:

    export GUIX_PROFILE=3D$HOME/.guix-profile
    source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile

This ensures that the variables won=E2=80=99t point to specific store items=
 but
rather to the *current* generation (even when you upgrade).

> and `which guix` prints
>
>     /home/username/.config/guix/current/bin/guix

Good!

--=20
Ricardo