Dear, On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 22:51, George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ISTM we set ourselves up for confused users and a lot of explaining by > labeling two very different things with same name :-0 I think there is a confusion here. The file <profile>/manifest is an internal detail implementation and the user should *not* be exposed to. Well, there are a lot of internal files that the user is not aware. And sometimes, the names are more or less well-chosen. But hey! it is internal and naming is hard. :-) > Yes, only 'manifest.scm' is in the doc, but '.guix-profile/manifest' > smacks a user in the face pretty quickly which leads to these messy > questions. I am not convinced by "smacks in the face pretty quickly". But I agree that questions about this topic regularly come. For example, to pick an old one: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00011.htlm > IMO we could dramatically simplify the situation, and simplify our > lives, by simply renaming the .guix-profile/manifest file ;-) In contradiction with what I wrote above, I agree. :-) <profile>/manifest should be renamed <profile>/specifications or something like that. And a comment could be inserted in this file saying: internal usage, do not modify, etc.. WDYT? All the best, simon
