hpr2308 :: Everyday package operations in Guix
Here's how I use Guix in my day-to-day. Fleshed out audio of a comment on ep 2198.
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Back at hpr2198 :: How awesome is Guix and why will it take over the world I wrote a comment about how I use guix in everyday practice. Here's the full episode for that comment.
The most common operations I do are:
guix environment --ad-hoc ncdu, where ncdu stands for something I heard about and want to try out, or something I only use once a month. It is then “installed” in the spawned sub-shell only. This is an awesome feature.- If you haven’t heard about ncdu, look it up.
- Also in
~/.bash_aliases - Also in
~/.local/share/applications- Using
stow, of course
- Using
guix package -i ncduif it turned out to be something I like and use every dayguix pullto get the latest definitions for this userguix package -uto upgrade my permanently installed stuff for this userguix package -dto erase history of what I had installed before and release these references for collectionguix gcto reclaim my precious disk spaceFollowup episode material:
- What's in my
.bash_aliases? - Decentralized source control, for real this time, with
git-ssb - What's so great about execline?
- What's a
stow?- How I got rid of stow and learned to love guix to the fullest (Future episode. That's not where I am today.)
- Listen kids, stow is not a package manager (warning: fediverse drama ahead). It's a symlink farm manager that I use for package management.
- Very short episode: ncdu, eh?
- What's in my