On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 12:36:01PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:57 AM Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Guix!
> >
> > Here’s a new blog post by Pierre Neidhardt entitled “Guix Profiles in
> > Practice”:
> >
> >   https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-profiles-in-practice/
> >
> > A great discussion on the benefits of manifests and on ways to manage
> > several profiles!
> 
> Great article!

I agree. One useful thing not mentioned in there is, that before
loading a profile, it may be worthwhile to empty the shell with

  env -i /bin/bash --login --noprofile --norc

  . ~/opt/my-tools-profile/etc/profile

so no existing shell variables may pollute your beautiful setup. 

Pj


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