Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> 1. System-wide installation means packages are readily available to all users,
> which can be nice, but users then don't have the freedom to remove them.
> For maximal flexibility, it's often best to leave system-wide packages to
> the
> bare minimum and let users choose what they want.
>
> If you are preparing a distribution for an organization, requirements could
> be different. Your mileage may vary.
>
> 2. I also combine emacs-guix and helm-system-packages a lot ;)
> My personal take at this issue is to generate the manifest from all
> installed
> packages with the following shell script:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> cat<<EOF>"$PKG_ROOT/guix"
> (specifications->manifest
> '(
> EOF
>
> guix package -I | awk '{printf("\"%s", $1); if($3!="out") {printf("%s",
> ":" $3)}; print "\""}' | LC_ALL=C sort >>"$PKG_ROOT/guix"
> echo "))" >>"$PKG_ROOT/guix"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> There might be better ways to do this.
Brilliant. Thanks Pierre.
