From: "Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq" <sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr>
To: "Daniel Meißner" <daniel.meissner-i4k@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 11:20:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa4501b7-7035-128d-429b-ea09db7780a1@univ-rouen.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d6k5yf7.fsf@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Le 17/05/2022 à 10:57, Daniel Meißner a écrit :
> Hi Sébastien,
>
> Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq writes:
>
>> Thanks Daniel,
>>
>> So if i understand well, in the common use case, if you install guix
>> home and use it in parallel with guix install, these profile are
>> "cumulative",
>> software installed are available no matter how I set them up (guix
>> install or using guix home declarative file + reconfigure) ?
> Yes, these two profiles are normally both loaded in the sense that the
> shell scripts ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile and
> ~/.guix-home/setup-environment are sourced.
Ok !
>
>> It is a bit confusing at first for new user, what's the best workflow,
>> using the guix home declarative file and "reconfigure" or directly
>> guix install ?
> It depends on what you want to achieve. You could use also both at the
> same time. I like to use only Guix home to manage the packages that I
> need on a regular basis. However, this is mainly because I also have
> some dotfiles in my home-environment. If you just want to declaratively
> manage the packages you use, you could also do it with manifests¹.
> Additionally, sometimes, when I need a package, that I presumably only
> use once, I use ‘guix shell’² for it.
Ok, i suppose manifest are similar to config.scm used for reconfiguring
system for exemple.
If you have some example of guix home profile that use dotfile manager
i'm interested :)
I'm planned to use chezmoi with pass (https://www.chezmoi.io/) in go
that use git to version file.
Thanks !
>
> Best
>
>
> ¹ https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Writing-Manifests.html
> ² https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell.html#Invoking-guix-shell
>
> --
> Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-17 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-11 9:09 Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-11 10:47 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-05-11 14:36 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-11 14:55 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-11 15:48 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-05-12 8:40 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-12 9:28 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-05-12 12:32 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-17 7:26 ` Daniel Meißner
2022-05-17 8:01 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-17 8:57 ` Daniel Meißner
2022-05-17 9:20 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq [this message]
2022-05-17 10:15 ` Daniel Meißner
2022-05-17 16:02 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-25 13:34 ` Daniel Meißner
2022-05-25 18:45 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-07-11 6:06 ` Joshua Branson
2022-05-26 0:31 ` Dominic Martinez
2022-06-01 20:38 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-06-12 19:32 ` sebastien rey-coyrehourcq
2022-06-13 19:31 ` Dominic Martinez
2022-06-14 10:36 ` Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
2022-05-11 21:56 ` Mekeor Melire
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