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From: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Subject: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the =?utf-8?Q?user=E2=80=99s?=
	default profile."?
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I am trying to understand and use Guix profiles. In (guix) Invoking guix
package it says ...

=E2=80=98--profile=3DPROFILE=E2=80=99
=E2=80=98-p PROFILE=E2=80=99
     Use PROFILE instead of the user=E2=80=99s default profile.

Because I want to use znc *instead* of the packages in my user=E2=80=99s de=
fault
profile, I did ...

guix package -p znc -i znc

... then I read this in znc/etc/profile ...

# Source this file to define all the relevant environment variables in Bash
# for this profile.  You may want to define the 'GUIX_PROFILE' environment
# variable to point to the "visible" name of the profile, like this:
#
#  GUIX_PROFILE=3D/path/to/profile ; \
#  source /path/to/profile/etc/profile

... so I did ...

GUIX_PROFILE=3Dznc
source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile

I expected 'which' now to find znc but not my user=E2=80=99s default profile
packages. Instead it finds znc *plus* my user=E2=80=99s default profile
packages.

So it looks like I am using the "union" of the znc and user=E2=80=99s defau=
lt
profiles as opposed to using the znc PROFILE *instead* of the user=E2=80=99s
default profile.

Is that a correct understanding of what is happening? Is that how it is
supposed to work?

If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user=E2=80=99s default
profile?"

TIA - George