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guix shell

[gfp]

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Hi Guix,

a simple question:

If I use e.g. homebank with guix shell
will the file, which I create or update be saved and I don´t loose my 
data, so that I can enter data on it on a weekly basis?

Could I use guix shell homebank
to not install homebank, because I don´t need it on a daily basis,
but I want to save the data, which I put into homebank?

thanks for help

Gottfried


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Re: guix shell

[Felix Lechner via]

Hi Gottfried,

On Wed, Dec 11 2024, gfp wrote:

> will the file, which I create or update be saved ... ?

I don't know homebank, but the answer is "probably."  Homebank should
store its data somewhere in your home folder.

Traditionally, it might have been ~/.homebank.  Modern software will use
a folder in the XDG hierarchy. [1]

I regularly use software the way you suggest with 'guix shell'.  I'd
also be happy to help you set up Guix Home.

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

Re: guix shell

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,
> Could I use guix shell homebank
> to not install homebank, because I don´t need it on a daily basis,
> but I want to save the data, which I put into homebank? 

Yes.The data is stored wherever homebank stored it – which most probably 
is somewhere in your home directory.

Much simplified you can image "guix shell" as a wrapper setting some 
environment variables to "homebank" ist loaded from /gnu/store, and all 
of its dependencies too. This wrapper does not change the path of your 
home directory neither will it inhibit writing anywhere. "guix shell" 
does not set up a container neither does it provide any kind of storage.

(Side-note: "guix shell -C" starts an container. Anyhow this container 
does not provide provide any storage beside granting access to your 
normal disk.)

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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