Re: Early feedback on Guix Home

[Andrew Tropin]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, den 24.06.2021, 20:42 +0300 schrieb Andrew Tropin:
>> It should be `guix home build ./path/to/file.scm`.  Also, make sure
>> that
>> before first run you've set proper GUILE_LOAD_PATH. (See
>> https://sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/ Guix Home section, Option 2).
>> 
>> It won't be needed, when Guix Home will be upstreamed, but for now it
>> is
>> necessary, if you want to use it from rde channel.
> This probably comes a little late, but have you considered writing a
> small wrapper module, that sets up %load-path and calls guix-home
> proper?  The Guix package is set up to locate extensions from
> share/guix/extensions.  I haven't checked if that works for channels,
> but you ought to give it a try.

IIRC, Jelle Licht proposed the usage of guix extensions some time ago,
but I decided not to provide such capability.

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-devel/patches/22245

But thank you for reminding, maybe I'll revisit guix extensions in the
future!)