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zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Coming from Conda package manager, it took me some time to understand;
> because the Guix terminology was not what I was expecting from the
> Conda terminology (in conda "guix environment" does not exist, and
> "guix profile" is called environment).
>
> Profile as persistent environment clarifies, IMHO.

Instead of providing a =E2=80=9Cguix profile=E2=80=9D command, another opti=
on would be
to merge =E2=80=9Cguix package=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cguix environment=E2=80=
=9D to just =E2=80=9Cguix
env[ironment]=E2=80=9D.  We could finally get rid of =E2=80=9Cguix environm=
ent
--ad-hoc=E2=80=9D while we=E2=80=99re at it :)

> Is it possible to list all my own profiles?

Not with a simple command, but Guix does keep links to profiles.  Take a
look here:

    /var/guix/gcroots/profiles/per-user/zimoun/

>> > And since I am in criticizing mood, the whole Guix management API
>> > suffers from bad naming. Consider "guix pull -l". What does it pull?  =
Or
>
> I agree that "guix pull" should be split into:
>  - "guix pull" which actually pulls and builds derivations
>  - "guix log" which lists, switches or deletes the pull generation
>
> For example "guix log --news" seems better than "guix pull --news".

I=E2=80=99m not convinced this would actually be an improvement.  We need to
avoid sub-command inflation.

--
Ricardo