(No) new profiles section in the manual (was Re: [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual))

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Hello Matt.  It was wrong of me not to react for so long.

And now, I want to state my disagreement to [1].  You propose / ask
(kind of a wishlist bug) to collect the information about profiles in
one, new section.  But because profiles are core Guix behavior and not a
functionality, it seems right to me to keep the information where it is
and just reference it from the concept index, as is the status quo?

In particular, “guix package” is not “for user profiles” and not one
more command supporting profiles.  It really is the fundamental CLI
interface of profiles.  Therefore the “Invoking guix package” section
should remain the go-to place.

But I would still like to address your patch [2] “[PATCH] doc: Clarify
need to update search paths on foreign distro” by just removing the
duplicate, unnecessary, incomplete instructions.  I will send a patch to
the guix-patches mailing list.

Regards,
Florian

[1] https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00200.html
[2] https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00058.html