[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Christopher Allan Webber <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Similarly, I've wondered, how do GuixSD users hack on Guix, if Guix >> is already installed system-wide? Genuine question! > > I definitely use ./pre-inst-env while hacking, plus Geiser with the > appropriate ‘geiser-guile-load-path’. > > I try to force myself to distinguish between hacking the thing and using > it. So I put my “end-user” hat on (don’t laugh!) and run ‘guix pull’ > and ‘guix’ (without ./pre-inst-env) when I want to fiddle with my > profile or unrelated development environments. > > So my ~/.config/guix/latest is usually slightly behind Git, but that’s > not necessarily a bad thing (sort-of like ‘testing’ vs. ‘unstable’ ;-)). > > Ludo’.
This statement should definitely complement the documentation in HACKING. -- Mathieu Lirzin
