John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> 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.
We use Guix on workstations and the cluster at the institute where I work. On the cluster /home is mounted via NFS. Guix does not set PATH to $HOME/.guix-profile automatically. Users have to do this on their own. (On GuixSD this is automatic.) I find “$HOME/.guix-profile” very useful. When set up it will always point to the user’s current Guix profile on the machine. If you want to harmonize this across all machines then not only /home should be mounted via NFS but also the store along with its localstatedir. This is how it’s done at the MDC, for example. ~~ Ricardo
