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To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
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Hi,

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 12:00, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:


> This is a proposal to change the current approach.  Instead of
> splitting Guix config in a way that tries to conform to XDG, but does
> not really, I propose to use a single directory ~/.guix for all
> configuration.

Maybe I misread something but instead I would prefer to move
~/.guix-profile under XDG standard, i.e.,
 - ~/.config/guix/current (or whatever name remembering it is used by
"guix pull")
 - ~/.config/guix/default (or 'profile') playing the role of ~/.guix-profile

Other profiles could be added (by default) under
~/.config/guix/<name-it>. Well, instead of ~/.guix/ I would prefer to
have ~/.config/guix/.

However, I agree that it could be a first step to have Channels
manager (as it was discussed some weeks ago) or Profile manager (also
discussed some weeks ago).


(Personally, I prefer having my profile living in the folders of my
projects, but that another story. ;-)

All the best,
simon