[debbugs-tracker] bug#37387: closed (reconfigure does not recreate ~/.guix-profile)

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> reconfigure does not recreate ~/.guix-profile
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> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:43:12 -0400
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> Hey guix,
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> ;tldr guix system reconfigure does not create a ~/.guix-profile, if
>  the file was deleted, nor does it change the symlink if the username
>  changed.
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> This seems like 2 tiny bugs.  I recently installed guix on my Thinkpad
> T400.  (Thanks by the way!  Sway works wonderfully!)  When I first
> created my user my user line looked like
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> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>          (user-account
>           (name "Joshua Branson")
>           (comment "Joshua Branson")
>           (group "users")
>           (home-directory "/home/joshua")
>           (supplementary-groups
>            '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
> #+END_SRC scheme
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> Later I changed the user name to '(name "joshua")' and reconfigured.
> Guix was smart enough to create a new profile for me, but
> .guix-profile still pointed to user account "Joshua Branson" not
> "joshua".
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> $ cd ~/; ls -lha .guix-profile
> .guix-profile -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/Joshua Branson/guix-profile
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> So I removed .guix-profile and reconfigured.
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> $ rm ~/.guix-profile
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> # sudo guix system reconfigure sway.scm
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> I thought that guix is declarative, so it will recreate .guix-profile,
> but it did not.
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> Thanks,
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> Joshua
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> Hi Joshua,
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> > ;tldr guix system reconfigure does not create a ~/.guix-profile
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> This is not a bug.
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> “guix system reconfigure” will never create .guix-profile.  That’s not
> what it’s supposed to do.
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> ~/.guix-profile is created when a profile is generated and installed,
> i.e. when a user installs their first package.
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> -- 
> Ricardo
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