Re: common software

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Even though there is some subjectivity in what is essential software, a
>> clean installation of GuixSD is very minimal.  Is there a reason for
>> this?
>
> The reason is primarily that with Guix it is *possible* to do so.  It
> allows different users on the same system to have different sets of
> software; as you wrote this is a very subjective decision, so we simply
> leave it up to the user.

Also, I find it more convenient to have applications I use in
~/.guix-profile rather than in the ‘packages’ field of my
‘operating-system’: I can install them, upgrade them, etc. whenever I
want, independently of the system config.

Ludo’.