Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

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On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr> 
wrote:
>Hi Gottfried,
>
>Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]:
>>
>> because of my limited knowledge
>> when opening my config.scm file with sudo
>> I can do it only with nano
>
>The strategy I personally prefer is to edit a file in my home directory
>and then sudo cp to /etc/config.scm.
>
>More concretely, I store my system configuration in
>~/.config/guix/system-config.scm. I edit it with Emacs, as I would edit
>any other normal file. When I am done editing, I do what essentially is
>
>sudo cp ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm /etc/config.scm

Hi!

Why not use the configuration from ~/.config directly? Why copy at all? I do

    sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm

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