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Subject: Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 19:50:30 -0500
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---- On Wed, 08 May 2019 14:18:33 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr=
> wrote ----

 > Hiya Sirgazil,=20
 > =20
 > sirgazil wrote:=20
 > > So, should one do the following instead?=20
 > >=20
 > >     $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm=20
 > >     Modify the file to your liking=20
 > >     $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure=20
 > >     ~/path/to/my-config.scm=20
 > =20
 > Oh, it doesn't matter.=20
 > =20
 > This file can be whatever and wherever you want it to be (mine's=20
 > /etc/guix/system.scm because eww =E2=80=98config=E2=80=99).  It's in /et=
c by=20
 > default since that's where most people will expect it and it's the=20
 > Unixly-correct place to put system-wide configuration files, and=20
 > this is the mother of all system-wide configuration files :-)=20
 > =20
 > Now, to be blunt, I don't think=20
 > =20
 >  =E2=80=9CThe normal way to change the system configuration is by=20
 >  updating this=20
 >  file and re-running =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99.  One sho=
uld=20
 >  never have=20
 >  to touch files in =E2=80=98/etc=E2=80=99[.]=E2=80=9D=20
 > =20
 > can reasonably be read as self-contradictory, but if you want to=20
 > add an =E2=80=98other=E2=80=99 at the end I don't think anyone will obje=
ct!=20

Thanks for your help, Tobias :)