Hi gfp,
gfp <g...@posteo.at> writes:
I have got 17 Profiles in:
/home/gfp/Projekte/Calibre
/Emacs
/Libreoffice
etc.
Would that mean to sorce all 17 profiles in one go? or only two
at a time?
I agree with Steve: you shouldn’t use profiles like this. By
activating all these profiles at once, you’re effectively creating
a single profile with the combined packages of all 17. But since
this is done in an ad-hoc way, outside Guix, it’s missing
functionality, such as telling you about conflicts, building the
XDG MIME database, font cache, etc. This is very likely going to
cause further bugs and problems.
If you put the software you regularly use into your main profile,
the system works better and your problem goes away without needing
to mess with shell startup.
Engineering is all about making tradeoffs. With the downsides
you’ve noted, and the complexity of managing it, I’d expect there
to be a very strong and specific upside from such a system which
can’t be replicated with a one-profile setup. I may have missed
it, but I don’t see such a rationale here.
I strongly urge you to reconsider your approach.
-- Ian
