---- On Wed, 08 May 2019 14:18:33 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> wrote ----
> Hiya Sirgazil, > > sirgazil wrote: > > So, should one do the following instead? > > > > $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm > > Modify the file to your liking > > $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure > > ~/path/to/my-config.scm > > Oh, it doesn't matter. > > This file can be whatever and wherever you want it to be (mine's > /etc/guix/system.scm because eww ‘config’). It's in /etc by > default since that's where most people will expect it and it's the > Unixly-correct place to put system-wide configuration files, and > this is the mother of all system-wide configuration files :-) > > Now, to be blunt, I don't think > > “The normal way to change the system configuration is by > updating this > file and re-running ‘guix system reconfigure’. One should > never have > to touch files in ‘/etc’[.]” > > can reasonably be read as self-contradictory, but if you want to > add an ‘other’ at the end I don't think anyone will object! Thanks for your help, Tobias :)
