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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Leo Prikler" <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Collect guix profiles in single directory.
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:28:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo98pwup.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv56av8o.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

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Proposal:

- Modify /etc/profile in Guix System to load everything in GUIX_PROFILE_DIR if
  set.  If not set, fall back on ~/.guix-profile.

- When GUIX_PROFILE_DIR is set, use GUIX_PROFILE_DIR/default as the
  fault.  Otherwise fall back to ~/.guix-profile if GUIX_PROFILE_DIR is
  unset for backward compatibility.

- Add a "-P,--profile-name NAME" command line option that automatically derives
  the profile path as $GUIX_PROFILE_DIR/$NAME.  This would make it easy
  to deal with frequently-used profiles from command line, e.g.

  guix install -P my-gimpy-profile gimp


In the end, all the user needs to do to start using multiple profiles in
a convenient manner is to export GUIX_PROFILE_DIR.

I believe the above is fully backward compatible.  If there is no
objection we can start working on a patch :)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-23 10:59 Collect guix profiles in single directory Leo Prikler
2020-01-06 18:55 ` zimoun
2020-01-06 20:07   ` Alex Griffin
2020-01-06 22:52     ` zimoun
2020-01-07 13:02   ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-06 19:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 11:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-08 13:48   ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-08 14:16     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-30 19:28       ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-01-30 20:08         ` [ SPAM? ] " Leo Prikler
2020-01-31  7:59           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31  8:46             ` zimoun
2020-01-31  9:29               ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 12:04                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 12:56                   ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 13:36                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 11:06               ` [ SPAM? ] " Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31  9:18             ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 13:33               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 14:34                 ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 15:17                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 15:38                     ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-31 15:52                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 11:44 ` Raghav Gururajan

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