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Subject: Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:53:59 -0400
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Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
[...]
>
> Running all machines, I dunno.  I do dual-boot Debian and GuixSD with
> them sharing the same user profile and store.

Dual boot. Now that is cool!

> On Debian, I bind-mount
> some directories from GuixSD's root partition.  From /etc/fstab:
>
> UUID=d9cc11f0-e548-4526-a541-4f631a10b73c /mnt/guix/      ext4    defaults        0       2
> /mnt/guix/var/guix    /var/guix           none            defaults,bind           0       0
> /mnt/guix/gnu    /gnu                     none            defaults,bind           0       0
>
> Then /home/ is shared (and luks encrypted) on both distros.  It works
> fine.

I was thinking of a substitutes approach and hadn't thought of sharing
guix and /gnu. I could do that on my home servers.

> If you want to do "same profile and store across all things" Ricardo
> Wurmus does some wild things using NFS.

If he doesn't comment maybe I will contact him.

Thank you for the comments. - George