Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi George, > > George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> ISTM we can improve this situation as follows: >> >> 1) agree on a canonical term to use for the 4 types of profiles > > I think you mentioned only two types of “profiles”: one is profiles > created by ‘guix package’ or ‘guix environment’ or ‘guix system’ (they > are all the same kind of “profile”), and the other one is execution > profile, which has nothing to do with that. > > So to me it seems that “profile” is in fact used fairly consistently, > isn’t it? Yes ... but ... the use of these profiles produces subtly different "side-effects". Package operations cause changes in the user's "default" profile that are immediately "used" in the user environment. However 'guix package -p foo' does not cause foo to be "used". 'guix environment --ad-hoc' causes the environment profile to be "added" to the user's environment, but --pure substitutes it for both system and "default" profiles IIUC. IMO these could be better explained and more easily referenced by users if we develop a structured nomenclature to distinquish between these. > However… > >> 3) add a top level discussion of profiles > > … we surely need this. Someone we should clearly define “profile” > somewhere upfront. Perhaps we also need a glossary. Agreed
