Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

[Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq]

Le 17/05/2022 à 10:57, Daniel Meißner a écrit :
> Hi Sébastien,
>
> Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq writes:
>
> > Thanks Daniel,
> >
> > So if i understand well, in the common use case, if you install guix
> > home and use it in parallel with guix install, these profile are
> > "cumulative",
> > software installed are available no matter how I set them up (guix
> > install or using guix home declarative file + reconfigure) ?
> Yes, these two profiles are normally both loaded in the sense that the
> shell scripts ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile and
> ~/.guix-home/setup-environment are sourced.
Ok !
> > It is a bit confusing at first for new user, what's the best workflow,
> > using the guix home declarative file and "reconfigure" or directly
> > guix install ?
> It depends on what you want to achieve.  You could use also both at the
> same time.  I like to use only Guix home to manage the packages that I
> need on a regular basis.  However, this is mainly because I also have
> some dotfiles in my home-environment.  If you just want to declaratively
> manage the packages you use, you could also do it with manifests¹.
> Additionally, sometimes, when I need a package, that I presumably only
> use once, I use ‘guix shell’² for it.

Ok, i suppose manifest are similar to config.scm used for reconfiguring 
system for exemple.

If you have some example of guix home profile that use dotfile manager 
i'm interested :)
I'm planned to use chezmoi with pass (https://www.chezmoi.io/) in go 
that use git to version file.

Thanks !

> Best
>
>
> ¹ https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Writing-Manifests.html
> ² 
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell.html#Invoking-guix-shell
>
> --
> Daniel

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