Hiya Sirgazil,

sirgazil wrote:
> So, should one do the following instead?
>
>     $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm
>     Modify the file to your liking
>     $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure 
>     ~/path/to/my-config.scm

Oh, it doesn't matter.

This file can be whatever and wherever you want it to be (mine's 
/etc/guix/system.scm because eww ‘config’).  It's in /etc by 
default since that's where most people will expect it and it's the 
Unixly-correct place to put system-wide configuration files, and 
this is the mother of all system-wide configuration files :-)

Now, to be blunt, I don't think

  “The normal way to change the system configuration is by 
  updating this
   file and re-running ‘guix system reconfigure’.  One should 
   never have
   to touch files in ‘/etc’[.]”

can reasonably be read as self-contradictory, but if you want to 
add an ‘other’ at the end I don't think anyone will object!

Kind regards,

T G-R