Hello Guix!
I just had this crazy idea.
Currently, we can create multiple profiles at user-level. What if we
could bring the 'guix profiles' concept to system-level?
At user-level, user can choose which profile to work on. Like that it
would be cool to select which profile to boot.
Though
Hello Guix!
I just had this crazy idea.
Currently, we can create multiple profiles at user-level. What if we
could bring the 'guix profiles' concept to system-level?
At user-level, user can choose which profile to work on. Like that it
would be cool to select which profile to boot.
Though
Raghav Gururajan writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> At user-level, user can choose which profile to work on. Like that it
> would be cool to select which profile to boot.
If I understand this correctly, what you want is something similar to
NixOS' --profile-name [1], is that correct?
When I used it bac
Hello Raghav,
looking at the way you phrased this in IRC, I just found out, that I
misunderstood your mail. Basically, what you need to do to achieve
something like that with Guix currently, would be to keep two (or more)
config.scms and reconfigure each one after guix pull in a fixed order.
The
Hi RG,
> At user-level, user can choose which profile to work on. Like that it
> would be cool to select which profile to boot.
This already possible in some form: when booting, I can (optionally) select
an older system generation to boot (at least in GRUB). The question is, I
guess, would it b
Hi Raghav,
I find the idea very attractive. At first, I thought that GRUB menu
entries would be limiting, but then I realized that GRUB supports
submenus!
So all we need is one submenu per profile, right?
Cheers!
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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Hello Raghav,
I had a similar idea a little more than a year ago:<
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00358.html>
See also <
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-01/msg00083.html>
for the discussion it spawned.
While the default profile would stay active at all
Hello Guix!
I just had this crazy idea.
Currently, we can create multiple profiles at user-level. What if we
could bring the 'guix profiles' concept to system-level?
At user-level, user can choose which profile to work on. Like that it
would be cool to select which profile to boot.
Thought
