George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:

> I provided an example of how I use emacs and the _non-default behavior_
> of non-default profiles that I find particularly powerful in Guix. Of
> course it's not the only way to go, but I thought it might be of
> interest for your article.

Indeed, good point!

>> The problem I'm trying to address here is that of the default behaviour
>> of non-default profiles (actually: profiles in general).
>
> It wasn't clear until the sentence above that you are limiting the
> article to _default behaviour_. IMO, this is selling non-default
> profiles short.  E.G. kinda like writing a blog about 'guix environment'
> without mentioning '--pure'.

This is a good point.  Would you have example use cases that cannot be
done using the "profile default behaviour"? (Beside Emacs)

With regard to the case of Emacs, I believe that if we fix multi-profile
support, your script could be replace with a simple

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
GUIX_PROFILE=foo && . $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile && emacs
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Cool, nah? :)

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Pierre Neidhardt
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