On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:35:25 +0000 Phil Beadling <p...@beadling.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Refering to this section of the manual: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Locales-1 > > Is it possible in a foreign distro setup to define a set of base > packages in a global profile, set for all users? > > I'm trying to avoid having to install a locale for each user account > if possible? > > Thanks, > Phil. Could probably create a profile somewhere and source that from the default profile scripts or maybe the PAM environment scripts. Something like: $ guix package --profile=/var/guix-base-profile --manifest=/etc/guix-base-packages.scm And add a line like this wherever the environment is set up, which I'm honestly not sure where it is: GUIX_PROFILE=/var/guix-base-profile source /var/guix-base-profile It's important that the variable assignment is on the same line as the call to source. Alternatively you could write export GUIX_PROFILE=/var/guix-base-profile source $GUIX_PROFILE which sets GUIX_PROFILE as a side effect, which might cause problems.
