bug#35648: [PATCH] services: Add 'nix-service-type'.

[Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[…]

>>>> +After @command{guix system reconfigure} you need to configure Nix
>>>> for your
>>>> +user, e.g.:
>>>> +
>>>> +@example
>>>> +$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
>>>> +$ nix-channel --update
>>>> +$ ln -s "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/profile" ~/.nix-profile
>>>> +$ source /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
>>>> +$ nix-env --install hello
>>>> +$ hello
>>>> +@end example
>>>
>>> Can we instead simply add a link to upstream documentation for this?  I
>>> would feel more comfortable that way.
>>
>> I'm not sure it will be comfortable for most of Guix users.  Upstream
>> documentation doesn't mention ‘ln -s …’ step and ‘source …’ is Guix
>> system relative.
>
> What about providing just these two lines (“ln -s” and “source …”) and
> adding a cross-reference to the Nix manual for more information?
>
> If that works for you, you can push with these changes.

OK, pushed as 47b9614b3110307093382363c0ba70d31f32ef59 to master.

Thanks,
Oleg.

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