Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

[Todor Kondić]

On Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37, Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Pierre Neidhardt address@hidden writes:
>
> > Konrad Hinsen address@hidden writes:
> >
> > > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus
> > > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this really
> > > useful. I note for example that my own use of profiles is rather
> > > different from yours: I have per-project profiles for long-term projects
> > > whose software I don't want to update regularly to avoid breaking stuff.
> >
> > Hmmm, this sounds like what I do too! :)
>
> The main difference is that I don't have all my profiles activated
> in normal use, only my main profile plus one project profile. Different
> project profiles can contain different versions of the same software,
> so activating them together is not a good idea.
>
> What got me started with this strategy was the need to use
> Python 2 and Python 3 in different projects. But then it turned out to
> be useful for other software as well.

Persistent environments anyone? :)



> > Anyways, I'm all for discussing multiple strategies, the more the better!
>
> Sounds like a good plan!
>
> Cheers,
> Konrad