Well perhaps I will try your home manager and we can even improve it 😄
I want to spend some time learning Guix - I think highly
composable/customizable software is what many organizations desire and is the
area that is underserved - because many software vendors are not interested,
half-interested with ulterior motives, or outright against it 😅
GNU Guix seems to address both philosophical and technological shortcomings of
our society.
> On Sep 20, 2020, at 08:41, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Le 19 septembre 2020 19:18:14 GMT-04:00, y...@yasuaki.com a écrit :
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> Thank you for the pointer, here is what I did to make it work:
>>
>> set runtimepath+=/home/yasu/.guix-profile/share/vim/vimfiles
>>
>> The plugin and neovim were installed as below:
>>
>> guix package --install=vim-airline
>> guix package --install=nvim
>
> Great! Glad I could help :)
>
>>
>> But this seems rather "imperative" and is not what I expected to do,
>> after spending many weeks trying home-manager from NixOS :-)
>>
>> excerpt from .config/nixpkgs/home.nix
>> ...
>> programs.neovim = {
>> enable = true;
>> plugins = [
>> pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-airline
>> pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-nix
>> ];
>> ...
>>
>> In the Nix world, I think people were not seeing much point of:
>>
>> nix-env -i
>>
>> which seems to be their equivalent of:
>>
>> guix package --install=
>>
>> As an alternative, 'home-manger' seemed popular.
>>
>> Would you say the same for Guix as well?
>
> I agree, this is very imperative, but since we don't have an equivalent of
> the home manager (except for my channel which is not very popular because I
> don't recommend it for everyday use), this the kind of thing we usually do.
>
> Actually, the most popular in guix is rather to set some *PATH environment
> variable, sometimes even patching the software to honor them. But we don't
> have any for neovim.
>
> The equivalent of your home.nix example would be:
>
> (user-home
> neovim-home-type
> (neovim-confiquration
> (plugins (list neovim-airline neovim-nix))))
>
> (Assuming we actually have these packages)
>
> The guix home manager follows the spirit of functionnal management closer
> than the nix home manager, because itqmakes your entire home a symlink to a
> store path, whereas nix home only overwrites some files that can later be
> modified imperatively (by you or a software). That makes it harder to use and
> breaks many software, but is much more satisfying :)
>
>>
>> -Yasu
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 19.09.2020 23:40, Julien Lepiller wrote:
>>> If you install plugins in your profile, you can add:
>>>
>>> set runpath+=/home/user/.guix-profile/share/nvim/site
>>>
>>> In your .config/nvem/init.vim
>>>
>>> I also have a guix-home-manager at
>>> https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-home-manager but it's more
>>> involved.
>>>
>>> Le 19 septembre 2020 10:04:45 GMT-04:00, Yasuaki Kudo
>>> <y...@yasuaki.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I see some vim plugin packages for guix but I have no idea how I
>>>> enable them in the neovim (nvim) that I installed in Guix.
>>>>
>>>> In NixOS I just used "home manager" and modified some existing
>>>> template I found to add more plugins.
