Ludovic Courtès said:

> Could you then see if this can be reproduced in a VM?  That is, run:

>  guix system vm config.scm

> where config.scm is your system config, with Emacs added

I've started on this process but it's new to me so I'm a bit lost here.

I added emacs to the package list of my existing real config.scm, the one at /etc/config.scm, then ran the guix system vm command on it. I read up a bit

on what the command does, and I *think* I've now created a qemu-compatible

image that I now have to boot with qemu and it should be like my exact system

minus user profile packages. I've never used qemu so I'm a bit intimidated there,

but I plan to try to figure this out soon.