Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

2022-06-14 Thread Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
Le 13/06/2022 à 21:31, Dominic Martinez a écrit : sebastien rey-coyrehourcq writes: Hi, I jump into guile world by learning and copy/pasting Dominic Martinez config :) Nice to know my config helped someone! Sorry it's a bit of a mess, I didn't really document anything. I'm interested

Guix home package confusion

2022-06-14 Thread Tangonov
I am trying out guix for the first time and feel like I may have jumped in head-first into the shallow end of the pool. I had started out with using guix package for my packages and updated my env for around 30 generations. Then I discovered guix home and thought "hey, that may be better". I

Re: Guix home package confusion

2022-06-14 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 08:05:45AM -0700, Tangonov wrote: > I am trying out guix for the first time and feel like I may have jumped in > head-first into the shallow end of the pool. > > I had started out with using guix package for my packages and updated my env > for around 30 generations. Then I

Re: Guix home package confusion

2022-06-14 Thread Tangonov
Thanks for the reply. I of course felt the need to keep trying after I messaged you. Call it determination (or impatience). I had manged to do such a good job of addressing my own questions that I ended up breaking my home environment. In the end, I ended up logging in as root, deleting my pro

Re: Guix home package confusion

2022-06-14 Thread Tangonov
With some more proper reading around I managed to find this thread from May: https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg13655.html The end of the conversation answered many of my questions. I think I know how I want to proceed from here. Thanks for taking the time if you made it this

Re: Guix home package confusion

2022-06-14 Thread Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
Hi, Happy to see i'm not alone, a little lost when jumping into the guix home bath ;) I think there is something to do (a schema, a table ?) to better visualize relation between guix home, guix system, guix install, guix package for the beginer. That could help a lot when you start your wor