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Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm
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sirgazil |
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Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm |
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Wed, 08 May 2019 19:50:30 -0500 |
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---- On Wed, 08 May 2019 14:18:33 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
wrote ----
> Hiya Sirgazil,
>
> sirgazil wrote:
> > So, should one do the following instead?
> >
> > $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm
> > Modify the file to your liking
> > $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure
> > ~/path/to/my-config.scm
>
> Oh, it doesn't matter.
>
> This file can be whatever and wherever you want it to be (mine's
> /etc/guix/system.scm because eww ‘config’). It's in /etc by
> default since that's where most people will expect it and it's the
> Unixly-correct place to put system-wide configuration files, and
> this is the mother of all system-wide configuration files :-)
>
> Now, to be blunt, I don't think
>
> “The normal way to change the system configuration is by
> updating this
> file and re-running ‘guix system reconfigure’. One should
> never have
> to touch files in ‘/etc’[.]”
>
> can reasonably be read as self-contradictory, but if you want to
> add an ‘other’ at the end I don't think anyone will object!
Thanks for your help, Tobias :)