Re: Is it possible add 'Guix package manager without "make install"' to guix doc?

[Mathieu Lirzin]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>>    Similarly, I've wondered, how do GuixSD users hack on Guix, if Guix
>>    is already installed system-wide?  Genuine question!
>
> I definitely use ./pre-inst-env while hacking, plus Geiser with the
> appropriate ‘geiser-guile-load-path’.
>
> I try to force myself to distinguish between hacking the thing and using
> it.  So I put my “end-user” hat on (don’t laugh!) and run ‘guix pull’
> and ‘guix’ (without ./pre-inst-env) when I want to fiddle with my
> profile or unrelated development environments.
>
> So my ~/.config/guix/latest is usually slightly behind Git, but that’s
> not necessarily a bad thing (sort-of like ‘testing’ vs. ‘unstable’ ;-)).
>
> Ludo’.

This statement should definitely complement the documentation in HACKING.

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Mathieu Lirzin