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spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.27 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b="kFebj5E/"; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 9B8D5272B3 X-Spam-Score: -1.27 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: bwjkvWnE6jaY Hi Tobias, On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 00:30, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU= Guix wrote: > Out of curiosity: how do you intuitively understand profiles, as=20 > someone who's used Guix for a while? Effectively, profiles is not explicitly defined but implicitly, for instance: Otherwise, the most explicit definition is in the Cookbook: Guix provides a very useful feature that may be quite foreign to newcomers: profiles. They are a way to group package installations together and all users on the same system are free to use as many profiles as they want. BTW, I remember that coming from Conda (and Python), I was confused by what was Profile and Environment in Guix, since =E2=80=99environment=E2=80= =99 (in Conda) corresponds to Profile (in Guix). Anyway, for words inspiration, Conda=E2=80=99s doc: A conda environment is a directory that contains a specific collect= ion of conda packages that you have installed. For example, you may hav= e one environment with NumPy 1.7 and its dependencies, and another enviro= nment with NumPy 1.6 for legacy testing. If you change one environment, y= our other environments are not affected. You can easily activate or deactivate environments, which is how you switch between them. You = can also share your environment with someone by giving them a copy of y= our environment.yaml file. For more information, see Managing environme= nts. And from this old time, I remember that examples really helps, for instance. . Therefore, the section =C2=ABGetting Started=C2=BB could be a bit extended = with a paragraph about Profiles and one or two examples. WDYT? Cheers, simon