Hello,

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

> Effectively, profiles is not explicitly defined but implicitly, for
> instance:
>
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Features>
>
> 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.
>
> <https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Guix-Profiles-in-Practice.html>

[...]

> <https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/concepts/environments.html>
>
> And from this old time, I remember that examples really helps, for
> instance.
>
> <https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/getting-started.html#managing-environments>.
>
> Therefore, the section «Getting Started» could be a bit extended with a
> paragraph about Profiles and one or two examples.  WDYT?
>
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Getting-Started>

Thanks for the pointers!  How about these changes to “Getting Started”
and “Invoking guix package”?

Ludo’.