Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

[Luis Felipe]

Hello people,

El 12/03/23 a las 11:00, Sergiu Ivanov escribió:
> Hi SeerLite,
>
> SeerLite <seerlite@disroot.org> [2023-03-12T00:42:42+0100]:
> > On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr> 
> > wrote:
> > > Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]:
> > > > because of my limited knowledge
> > > > when opening my config.scm file with sudo
> > > > I can do it only with nano
> > > The strategy I personally prefer is to edit a file in my home directory
> > > and then sudo cp to /etc/config.scm.
> > >
> > > More concretely, I store my system configuration in
> > > ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm. I edit it with Emacs, as I would edit
> > > any other normal file. When I am done editing, I do what essentially is
> > >
> > > sudo cp ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm /etc/config.scm
> > Why not use the configuration from ~/.config directly? Why copy at all? I do
> >
> >      sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm
> You are right, it's probably even better.
>
> I prefer keeping my system config in /etc/config.scm because this is
> what everyone seems to do, but that's probably a bad reason, supported
> by unreliable data :D
I don't think there is any need to edit /etc/config.scm at all (maybe 
something in the manual needs clarification?). Once you have installed 
the Guix System, you can

1. Open /etc/config.scm with any text editor you want
2. Copy its contents and save them to a file in any location in your
   home folder. For example: ~/Documents/my-guix-things/production-os.scm.

From that moment on, you can edit production-os.scm as your regular 
user in any way you like and only use "sudo" to apply the configuration 
to your system:

   guix pull  # Recommended.
   sudo guix system reconfigure
   ~/Documents/my-guix-things/production-os.scm

You can even create copies of "production-os.scm" and shape different 
systems you'd like to try out separately (e.g. gnome-os.scm, 
sway-os.scm, some-server.scm, etc.).

In fact, the Guix manual says: "The normal way to change the system 
configuration is by updating this file [a file like the 
production-os.scm] and re-running ‘[sudo] guix system reconfigure’.  One 
should never have to touch files in ‘/etc’" (see System Configuration).

Hope that helps,


--
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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