From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: 22402@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22402: info guix pages
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:02:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160119220234.GA4641@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=Rwfbwe1D6+j_52=kfNA4jX5+zf8b78Ek4F1P0Bu_YgmttXA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:34 AM, carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, that is the case, there is no mystery, there is indeed a
> > /root/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info
> > and there is NOT a
> > ~user/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info
> >
> > However I consider that a bug. Here I am a user, using guix, and I expect
> > "info guix" to work. Why would the user have to switch to root just to read
> > this one info file? After installing guix, I would expect guix.info to be
> > in my defalt .guix-profile, or a least a notice of how to install
> > guix.info. ( coping and linking I know how to do, that's not the problem.
> > It's a question
> > of creating a polished piece of software.) Would "guix package -i guix" do
> > the right thing?
> > That seems all wrong, would install stuff I already have.
>
> I think you need to adjust your expectations. You only have Guix
> available *in the root user's profile*. Each user has their own
> package profile, so running 'guix package -i guix' as your regular
> user is exactly what you want. Why would you expect the system to
> magically read the info pages out of root's profile? It's not
> installing stuff you already have because your user *didn't* have it.
> So, install the Guix package and set $INFOPATH to include
> $HOME/.guix-profile/share/info.
>
> Ludo, to avoid this confusion in the future, perhaps the binary
> installation instructions for folks on foreign distros could have an
> additional instruction. After symlinking root's guix to
> /usr/local/bin/guix, the documentation could suggest symlinking the
> docs to /usr/local/share/info. Would that help?
I only just realized that I have been using root's `guix` as my user,
because I have been relying on the `guix` in '/usr/local/bin'. I like
Efraim's suggestion of instructing users to `guix package -i guix`.
>
> - Dave
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 23:43 bug#22402: info guix pages carl hansen
2016-01-19 1:47 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-19 3:55 ` carl hansen
2016-01-19 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-19 9:34 ` carl hansen
2016-01-19 10:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-19 16:42 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-01-19 17:17 ` Thompson, David
2016-01-19 22:02 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-01-20 0:45 ` carl hansen
2016-01-20 4:24 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-21 1:26 ` carl hansen
2016-01-21 3:21 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-20 23:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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