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[bug#66577] [PATCH 2/4] doc: Mention Guix Home in “Getting Started”.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#66577] [PATCH 2/4] doc: Mention Guix Home in “Getting Started”. |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:53:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hi,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 14:43, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> @quotation Going further
>> @xref{Package Management}, for more about package management. You may
>> like @dfn{declarative} package management with @command{guix package
>> ---manifest}, managing separate @dfn{profiles} with @option{--profile},
>> +--manifest},
>> deleting old generations, collecting garbage, and other nifty features
>> that will come in handy as you become more familiar with Guix. If you
>> are a developer, @pxref{Development} for additional tools. And if
>> you're curious, @pxref{Features}, to peek under the hood.
>
> It is part of “Going further”, so I would let « managing separate
> @dfn{profiles} with @option{--profile} ». For what it is worth, I
> recommend for some newcomer to still use a separated profile inside the
> project folder, just aside the files manifest.scm and channels.scm.
Yeah, I thought about concision and ‘--profile’ seemed less important
than “deleting old generations” etc.
Also, caching in ‘guix shell’ was designed to automate what one would do
manually with ‘-p’: registering the GC root, cleaning things up that are
unused. The goal was to provide a simpler interface, which ideally also
means simpler onboarding.
Anyway, no strong opinion, so I’ve re-added the “managing separate
profiles” bit.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 0/4] Newcomer-oriented improvements to the manual and cookbook, Ludovic Courtès, 2023/10/16
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 1/4] doc: Move “System Troubleshooting Tips” below., Ludovic Courtès, 2023/10/16
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 4/4] doc: cookbook: Add cross references to the manual regarding manifests., Ludovic Courtès, 2023/10/16
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 2/4] doc: Mention Guix Home in “Getting Started”., Ludovic Courtès, 2023/10/16
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 3/4] doc: cookbook: Suggest ‘guix shell’ as an alternative to multiple profiles., Ludovic Courtès, 2023/10/16
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 0/4] Newcomer-oriented improvements to the manual and cookbook, Mathieu Othacehe, 2023/10/17
- [bug#66577] [PATCH 0/4] Newcomer-oriented improvements to the manual and cookbook, Simon Tournier, 2023/10/18