I am trying to understand and use Guix profiles. In (guix) Invoking guix
package it says ...
‘--profile=PROFILE’
‘-p PROFILE’
Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile.
Because I want to use znc *instead* of the packages in my user’s default
profile, I did ...
guix package -p znc -i znc
... then I read this in znc/etc/profile ...
# Source this file to define all the relevant environment variables in Bash
# for this profile. You may want to define the 'GUIX_PROFILE' environment
# variable to point to the "visible" name of the profile, like this:
#
# GUIX_PROFILE=/path/to/profile ; \
# source /path/to/profile/etc/profile
... so I did ...
GUIX_PROFILE=znc
source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile
I expected 'which' now to find znc but not my user’s default profile
packages. Instead it finds znc *plus* my user’s default profile
packages.
So it looks like I am using the "union" of the znc and user’s default
profiles as opposed to using the znc PROFILE *instead* of the user’s
default profile.
Is that a correct understanding of what is happening? Is that how it is
supposed to work?
If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user’s default
profile?"
TIA - George
