On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:49:41PM -0500, Rodrigo Morales wrote:
> Table of Contents
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> 1. The context
> 2. The questions
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> 1 The context
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>   Currently, the only way I know how to make my laptop connect to the
>   Internet is via Ethernet, because the Wi-fi card of my laptop requires
>   nonfree firmware.
> 
>   Today, I had to use my laptop without Ethernet (i.e. no connection to
>   the Internet). While I was using it, I decided to run `guix home
>   reconfigure' because I thought that in contrast to installing a
>   package, `guix home reconfigure' seems to only act in local
>   files. However, it threw an error and it seemed it tried to connect to
>   the Internet. The following code block shows the error message.

While `guix home reconfigure` does create local symlinks, it still has
to build the packages it references and building packages requires an
internet connection for fetching substitutes or sources.

If you have not changed the packages referenced in your configuration or
ran `guix pull` after the last `guix home reconfigure`, I'd think it
shouldn't require an internet connection.