Oct 2, 2026, 2:56 PMbasically, 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.
- Oct 2, 2026, 2:56 PM
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- 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