John Darrington writes: > I have my /home NFS mounted (not uncommon in large networks, I think). > Unfortunately this does not play nicely with guix's convention of setting > $PATH &c to $HOME/.guix-profile and then linking $HOME/.guix-profile to > %state-directory/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix_profile - for the obvious reason > that %state-directory could be different on each workstation - in which case > $HOME/.guix-profile will be a dead link. > > I'm not sure exactly what benefit the ~/.guix-profile convention brings us, > except > perhaps that it is easy to remember. > > I'd like to see the ability to have GuixSD deployable in medium-large > intranets > where home (and /var/mail) are remotely mounted filesystems. Hence I suggest > that > $HOME/.guix-profile is deprecated.
Hm, considered harmful, I dunno. It seems a bit strong! Something does feel useful to me about having it in $HOME. It seems like the logical place to me, since it's per-user. But I can see the merits of moving it to the %state-directory. Eventually Debian + Guix stopped working with my GuixSD setup. It might have been nice to have a separate store location altogether. Still, this switch feels very strange to me. $HOME feels... like the right thing. Which I guess isn't a very good explaination.
