Re: Multiple profiles with Guix Home

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Donnerstag, dem 05.05.2022 um 12:53 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op do 05-05-2022 om 06:25 [+0200]:
> > > > across several manifests, that could easily fit into separate
> > > > profiles if Guix didn't make working with those an absolute
> > > > pain.
> > > 
> > > ... but separate profiles = separate manifests (except when using
> > > "guix install")?
> > This implication really only goes one way, i.e. separate profiles
> > require separate manifests.  Not that you can't specify multiple
> > manifests in one file, for instance, ...
> 
> What I meant here, is that profiles correspond to manifests (1-1
> relation), with the exception of "guix install".  And at least
> currently, multiple manifests in a single file appears to be
> unsupported?
Manifests are scheme code, you can put as many of them into a file as
you want.  For the interface to Guix commands you have to return one at
a time, sure, but that's not the limitation you think it is.