Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis:
>> Even though there is some subjectivity in what is essential software, a >> clean installation of GuixSD is very minimal. Is there a reason for >> this? > > The reason is primarily that with Guix it is *possible* to do so. It > allows different users on the same system to have different sets of > software; as you wrote this is a very subjective decision, so we simply > leave it up to the user. Also, I find it more convenient to have applications I use in ~/.guix-profile rather than in the ‘packages’ field of my ‘operating-system’: I can install them, upgrade them, etc. whenever I want, independently of the system config. Ludo’.
