Re: The `channels' field of `operating-system' record

[Tomas Volf]

On 2024-04-09 06:16:12 +0200, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> 09.04.2024 06:06:00 CEST Nathan Dehnel:
> > I don't think you're supposed to edit /etc/guix/channels.scm directly,
> > I think it's generated by guix system reconfigure.
> > https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/issues/33
> > I have ~/.config/guix/channels.scm generated by putting
> > home-channels-service-type in my guix home config.
>
> Now that you mentioned it — is this not root user’s channel list, and
> one is not supposed to use guix as root?

Not really, it is a system-wide channel list.  Root's channel list would be
/root/.config/guix/channels.scm.

>
> I use home-channels-service-type and the only issue with this solution
> is that it requires a 'guix home reconfigure' before the new channels
> can be used in 'guix pull'.  Though one could also use the -C flag to
> a channels.scm file including the list of channels.

The /etc/... one has advantage of applying to all users.  Which is nice.

Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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