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gfp |
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Re: file transfer |
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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:10:24 +0000 |
Hi,
thanks for help
What makes the difference if I install icedove and firefox as user
packages
or install them in a profile?
What do you mean by a profile? If you mean as whole system configuration
file, everything is kept in sync, being sure versions are matching each
others.
I apologise for not having explained enough.
Somebody, I forgot who, wrote this, and I did the same:
By default, each user on Guix System has one user profile. All packages
that they install are placed into it. This is easy to manage.
Some people (like myself) choose to create additional profiles.
Many people do this in order to separate out a group of packages that
they don't want installed (or upgraded) all the time.
I do it because occasionally one of my packages breaks when I am
upgrading my system. By splitting all of my packages up into a few
different profiles by category, if one package fails to upgrade, then
that profile doesn't upgrade, but all of my other profiles do. This
allows me to install the newest software for everything outside of the
broken profile. Then I focus on fixing the broken package and just
upgrade the broken profile. Easy peasy.
Gottfried
Am 18.04.24 um 08:15 schrieb Sÿ:
What makes the difference if I install icedove and firefox as user
packages
or install them in a profile?
What do you mean by a profile? If you mean as whole system configuration
file, everything is kept in sync, being sure versions are matching each
others.
I am new to guix but as I understand it: if you install as user
packages, you can install as a user and not the system administrator but
also without reconfiguring all the system. The trade off is that it is
the user responsability to keep versions of packages matching the system
configuration.
Now after upgrading I have got KDE with X11 (like before)
and additionally KDE with wayland (which I didn't have earlier).
Yeah, there was an upgrade to put wayland by default on all desktop UIs
recently. I used gnome and I think that in my case, that was what
crashed icedove or firefox when I tried to select or save a file.
thanks for help
Gottfried
Hope I could help a little. At least, I tried. :)
Sÿ
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