Hi,

thanks for help

>>> What makes the difference if I install icedove and firefox as user 
>>> packages
>>> or install them in a profile?

>> What do you mean by a profile? If you mean as whole system configuration 
>> file, everything is kept in sync, being sure versions are matching each 
>> others.

I apologise for not having explained enough.

Somebody, I forgot who, wrote this, and I did the same:

By default, each user on Guix System has one user profile. All packages 
that they install are placed into it. This is easy to manage.

Some people (like myself) choose to create additional profiles.
Many people do this in order to separate out a group of packages that 
they don't want installed (or upgraded) all the time.
I do it because occasionally one of my packages breaks when I am 
upgrading my system. By splitting all of my packages up into a few 
different profiles by category, if one package fails to upgrade, then 
that profile doesn't upgrade, but all of my other profiles do. This 
allows me to install the newest software for everything outside of the 
broken profile. Then I focus on fixing the broken package and just 
upgrade the broken profile. Easy peasy.

Gottfried


Am 18.04.24 um 08:15 schrieb Sÿ:
> 
>> What makes the difference if I install icedove and firefox as user 
>> packages
>> or install them in a profile?
> What do you mean by a profile? If you mean as whole system configuration 
> file, everything is kept in sync, being sure versions are matching each 
> others.
> I am new to guix but as I understand it: if you install as user 
> packages, you can install as a user and not the system administrator but 
> also without reconfiguring all the system. The trade off is that it is 
> the user responsability to keep versions of packages matching the system 
> configuration.
>>
>> Now after upgrading I have got KDE with X11 (like before)
>> and additionally KDE with wayland (which I didn't have earlier).
> 
> 
> Yeah, there was an upgrade to put wayland by default on all desktop UIs 
> recently. I used gnome and I think that in my case, that was what 
> crashed icedove or firefox when I tried to select or save a file.
> 
>>
>> thanks for help
>>
>> Gottfried
> 
> Hope I could help a little. At least, I tried. :)
> 
> Sÿ
>