Hi SeerLite, SeerLite <seerl...@disroot.org> [2023-03-12T00:42:42+0100]: > On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov <siva...@colimite.fr> > wrote: >>Gottfried <gottfr...@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 > > Why not use the configuration from ~/.config directly? Why copy at all? I do > > sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm
You are right, it's probably even better. I prefer keeping my system config in /etc/config.scm because this is what everyone seems to do, but that's probably a bad reason, supported by unreliable data :D - Sergiu
