Re: Multiple profiles with Guix Home

[Maxime Devos]

Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op di 03-05-2022 om 22:04 [+0200]:
> That's why I say the long-term goal is evaluating search paths over
> multiple profiles.  However, given that Guix Home is currently a
> technological preview and given on top that multiple profile support is
> "write your own shell script, will ya?", I think we can leave that as a
> nice to have for later.

In practice, ‘nice to have later’ becomes virtually never, see e.g. not
building dependencies again and again and not having to build dozens of
variants of a package (go-build-system (*) and cargo-build-system (**).
As such, I'd rather have ‘now’.

Also, this sounds like adding a new feature (multiple profiles for Guix
Home) at cost of an extra (known) bug (these multiple profiles don't
share search paths).

(*) used to be reasonable 4 years ago, marked as ‘not a blocker’ and
then neglected, see
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32919#5>) 
(**) Currently being addressed with antioxidant-build-system (WIP)

Greetings,
Maxime.

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