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