Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> Hi George, > > You understand correctly and this is how it is supposed to work. The > “source” method always augments the environment variables. > >> If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user’s default >> profile?" > > You can use “guix package --search-paths=KIND” to generate different > kinds of environment variable changes. The manual says this: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > ‘--search-paths[=KIND]’ > Report environment variable definitions, in Bash syntax, that may > be needed in order to use the set of installed packages. These > environment variables are used to specify “search paths” for files > used by some of the installed packages. ... > This option can also be used to compute the _combined_ search paths > of several profiles. Consider this example: ... > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Note that using “exact” overrides variables, which means that you would > end up without things you might take for granted, such as “/bin” or > “/run/current-system/profile/bin”. > > The behaviour of sourcing a profile’s “etc/profile” file is equivalent > to using > > eval `guix package --search-paths=prefix` > > We wanted to add a more convenient command to “enable” another profile, > but IIRC there was no consensus on what that would look like. Thanks Ricardo, So, I can use PROFILE instead of my user default profile with .... eval guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE --search-paths=exact Is that correct? TIA - George
