Hi,

can I use two profiles at the same time?

When I have my main profile, additionally to open a second profile to 
use the package in there?
Or do I have to switch from one profile to the other and then switch back?
  I am still unsure how it works.

  Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 06.01.23 um 16:45 schrieb Simon Tournier:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 15:09, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
>> Which commands can I use to enter and close my new profile?
> 
> To enter, you just need to ’source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile’.
> 
> However, you cannot “deactivacte“; unset the environment variables and
> restore the previous ones.  Maybe, the easiest is:
> 
>     bash
>     source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
>     …do some stuff…
>     exit
> 
> Instead, you can run
> 
>      guix shell -p path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
>      …do some stuff…
>      exit
> 
> which does the same thing as above.
> 
> 
>> ...and also at start up that I can choose which profile to open?
> 
> What do you mean by “choose”?
> 
> 
>> guix package --profile=/home/gfp/projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile
>>
>> and beforehand I created the directory "projects" and
>> "Musescore-3.6.2" in the directory "projects"
>> in my /home/gfp/ directory
>> (I did that because it said: "
>> file or directory was not found"
>>
>> but it didn't work.
>> "warning: nothing to do" was the answer.
>>
>> Where was my mistake?
> 
> It is missing the option -i (or -m).  For instance,
> 
>      guix package -i musescore -p projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> simon
> 

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