ISTM our doc is a veritable "Profile Blizzard."
The term occurs 173 times in guix.texi The "user profile" is referred to in multiple ways: (guix) Application Setup: "your Guix profile" (guix) Features: 'own “profile”', "per-user profiles", "their profile" (guix) Invoking guix package: "user’s own profile", "user’s default profile", ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’ (guix) Invoking guix environment: "package profile" The "system profile" is referred to in multiple ways: (guix) Using the Configuration System: "Globally-installed packages" (guix) operating-system Reference: "global profile", ‘/run/current-system/profile’ (guix) Networking Services: "system profile" An unnamed type of "environment profile" is produced by 'guix environment' (guix) Invoking guix environment" ‘GUIX_ENVIRONMENT’ variable An unnamed type of "custom profile" is produced by the 'guix package' -p option. (guix) Top mentions only an entirely different use of the term: * Invoking guix size:: Profiling disk usage. (guix) Concept Index contains only (guix) Invoking guix package references. ISTM we can improve this situation as follows: 1) agree on a canonical term to use for the 4 types of profiles 2) update the doc accordingly 3) add a top level discussion of profiles WDYT? - George