Hi, On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 18:35, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 18.08.2021, 16:06 +0000 schrieb John Kehayias:
>> .config/guix is hardcoded in a few places already isn't it? (or is >> that just for root? took just a quick look) Personally, I prefer >> everything in .config to keep the home folder cleaner, but we all >> know there's a strong mix of things like $HOME/.something and >> $HOME/.config/something. > $(HOME)/.config is particularly hard-coded in the current /etc/profile, > which is why I dub it "fake XDG conformance". I personally disagree > with the use for $(HOME)/.config for software packages. Well, let open a new thread and resume the previous discussion should nice. From what I remember, the consensus had been (almost) reached and none of us took the time to propose a draft patch. :-) We could imagine a hierarchy where the profile are looked for––say ~/.cache/guix/profiles/ then ~/.config/guix/profiles then etc.––or an environment variable to let the user have the control. Whatever, we all have an idea but nothing concrete to discussion the details. ;-) >From my understanding, set a central place where the profiles live would be very helpful. Having only one big profile slows down a lot of operation when several ones ease the maintenance, IMHO. Cheers, simon PS: Personally, I have profiles with my tools (Emacs, notmuch, etc. )under ~/.config/guix/profiles and these profiles are generated with manifests under ~/.config/guix/manifests/ (folder under Git). Then inside each project, I have a manifest file specific for the project, then sometime the profile lives here, sometime I only use “guix environment”, etc.
