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  • tmw 🌈tmw@ioc.exchange
    Oct 2, 2026, 2:50 PM

    i say "magic" because my system config specifically looks for modules in /etc/guix-config/modules...

    ..but actually, i guess once the system is configured, it probably doesn't need to deal with the configuration file anymore...? this is probably something i should know by now but, well, i don't! lol

    aha, and as for sops, i see that the sops files get added to /gnu/store too. okay, that makes sense.

    this is all how it's supposed to be, of course... i mean, guix systems are supposed to have things like this in the store.

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  • tmw 🌈tmw@ioc.exchange
    Oct 2, 2026, 2:56 PM

    basically, i wasn't wrong in my thoughts about how this worked before. i just had barely thought or learned about it, and was only incidentally doing things correctly. 🙃

    oh, and that has probably not changed much.

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  • tmw 🌈tmw@ioc.exchange
    Oct 2, 2026, 6:10 PM

    aha: the provenance-service-type section of the guix manual explains it for me

    In particular, configuration.scm itself is insufficient if it is not self-contained—if it refers to external Guile modules or to extra files. If you want configuration.scm to be self-contained, we recommend that modules or files it refers to be part of a channel.

    hmm... guess it would be helpful for me to read about how to create a channel

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