HPR2308: Everyday package operations in Guix

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
• guix package -i ncdu if it turned out to be something I like and use every day
• guix pull to get the latest definitions for this user
• guix package -u to upgrade my permanently installed stuff for this user
• guix package -d to erase history of what I had installed before and release these references for collection

• guix gc to reclaim my precious disk space

• Followup 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?

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