Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-14 Thread Chris Marusich
Chris Marusich writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > [...] > >> Shouldn't it be '"$1"/etc/profile'? And no "exec ..."? Without the "exec", the second shell will spawn a new process. With the "exec", it will not spawn a new process. It works either way. I just decided to use "exec" to

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-14 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> However, I wonder why nobody has implemented >> "guix environment --profile=/path/to/my/profile". > > Note that there is the "--manifest" option to "guix environment". > > This brings up another "pro" for manifest: Right now it's possible to > create environments out

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Though maybe we don’t need to have both a blog post and a section in the >> cookbook, at least once the cookbook is visible on-line. :-) > > It would be nice to have a web feed for the cookbook then :) > > Is this planned? Of

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-14 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Am 14.10.19 um 09:27 schrieb Pierre Neidhardt: However, I wonder why nobody has implemented "guix environment --profile=/path/to/my/profile". Note that there is the "--manifest" option to "guix environment". This brings up another "pro" for manifest: Right now it's possible to create

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'll send a draft to guix-blog just now. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-13 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > While the documentation refers to profiles and manifests, it does not tell > much > of the use cases and the practical benefits. I just wanted to chime in and say I think a post about this, or a cookbook section on it, would be great. I'm sure there are many people

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Org mode has a Texinfo export library, so I'm thinking I'll do as for my > other blog posts and write them in Org, then export in > > - Markdown for the website; > > - Texinfo for the cookbook. Though maybe we don’t need to have both a blog post and a section in

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ricardo, how did you convert the blog posts to Texinfo? Manually. I had to change the wording in a few places anyway, so it wasn’t all that much more work. -- Ricardo

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > So what about writing a blog article / cookbook chapter to explain why > profiles and manifests are truly awesome indeed? (Unless this has > already been done and I missed it?) Go for it! :-) Seriously, I’ve discussed profiles and all with several

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt m...@ambrevar.xyz writes: > > > Konrad Hinsen konrad.hin...@fastmail.net writes: > > > > > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus > > > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > >> Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus >> different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this really >> useful. I note for example that my own use of profiles is rather >> different from yours: I have

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Konrad Hinsen writes: > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this really > useful. I note for example that my own use of profiles is rather > different from yours: I have per-project profiles for long-term

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Pierre, > So what about writing a blog article / cookbook chapter to explain why > profiles and manifests are truly awesome indeed? (Unless this has > already been done and I missed it?) Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus different preferences and use cases)

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Saturday, 5 October 2019 12:55, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > While the documentation refers to profiles and manifests, it does not tell > much > of the use cases and the practical benefits. > > For users coming from non-functional package managers, it's not really obvious > why we would

[Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi! While the documentation refers to profiles and manifests, it does not tell much of the use cases and the practical benefits. For users coming from non-functional package managers, it's not really obvious why we would need profiles. Regarding manifest, I suppose some people might find them