Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Sorry for the late reply. Amirouche Boubekki skribis: > *Q:* Does chroot guix/sd use chroot? The build daemon, ‘guix-daemon’, uses chroot (among other tools) to perform isolated builds: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix_002ddaemon.html > *Q:* Do guix dev

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-02 Thread Martin Castillo
On 01.01.2018 22:04, Martin Castillo wrote: > You can have several > packages. Check the -p flag of `guix package`. s/several packages/several profiles/ -- GPG: 7FDE 7190 2F73 2C50 236E 403D CC13 48F1 E644 08EC

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Joshua Branson
By no means am I a developer, but I can try to explain some things... A profile is a collection of packages. Each user on the system has a profile of his packages. So Jerry has a profile of Emacs 24, Iceweasel 50, etc. Jill also uses the system, but she has packages Tetris 5.4, Emacs 23, etc.

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 8:31 PM Amirouche Boubekki < amirouche.boube...@gmail.com> wrote: > Héllo, > > It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this > afternoon. > > I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how > they map to the rest of the world. >

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Martin Castillo
Hi, I'll give it a shot. On 01.01.2018 20:31, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Héllo, > > It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this > afternoon. > > I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how > they map to the rest of the world. > > Can someone

Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Héllo, It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this afternoon. I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how they map to the rest of the world. Can someone try to explain to me how the following concepts are related to each other: Environments,