Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> skribis:
> I think that would be very helpful. I'm trying to think of a concise, > correct, but actually useful definition of profiles for someone not > already familiar with them or Guix. > > Out of curiosity: how do you intuitively understand profiles, as > someone who's used Guix for a while? I’m not Luis but I usually say that a profile is the location of a set of installed packages. > Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix 写道： >> [...] what is the GUIX_PROFILE variable, does it accept a single >> path to a profile or more, and some use cases and examples. [...] > > I don't think we should document GUIX_PROFILE. It's not part of the > definition of Guix profiles. It should not matter to users nor should > they rely on previously observed behaviour. AIUI there are no > supported ‘use cases’, beyond copy-pasting Guix error messages... Agreed. ‘GUIX_PROFILE’ has no significance as an environment variable; it’s referred to by the generated ‘etc/profile’, but it’s usually a shell variable, not an environment variable. Ludo’.
