From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vicente Vera Subject: (Not GuixSD) Purpose of ~/.config/guix/ & config. files Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:45:03 -0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdjbl-0006Av-Lf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:45:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdjbk-0002Qx-R2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:45:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22a]:36731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdjbk-0002PV-Mj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:45:04 -0400 Received: by obbmp4 with SMTP id mp4so34462141obb.3 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello. After running 'guix pull' (as root) with a fresh binary installation directory ~root/.config/guix/ was created, which contains a "latest" symlink pointing to /gnu/store/...-guix-latest/. Since I work as a regular user, I noticed that Guix wasn't picking up changes from the updated distribution. Creating a ~luser/.config/guix/ directory with the same "latest" symlink solved the problem. Now after every 'guix pull' I have to manually update the symlink. I was wondering if the ~/.config/guix/ directory is used for something else apart from the case described above. On another note, what's the appropiate, Guix-y way of storing configuration files such as dotfiles, etc. (to be read by Guix installed programs) when using Guix atop another GNU/Linux distro?