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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: 22402@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22402: info guix pages
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87powxc0ga.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEkXCRYCW0YWz4Y-NRu-jq4D2OTyW23E3Kkko9qG6auX-duRg@mail.gmail.com> (carl hansen's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 01:34:46 -0800")

carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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

OK.

> 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.)

Yeah, I agree this is bad.  On GuixSD there’s no such problem because
Guix is installed system-wide, so “info guix” always picks up the
system-wide guix.info at least.

> Would "guix package -i guix" do the right thing?  That seems all
> wrong, would install stuff I already have.

It would do the trick, yes.

I’m not sure how to fix that problem on foreign distros.  Suggestions
welcome.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-19 10:46 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 [this message]
2016-01-19 16:42           ` Efraim Flashner
2016-01-19 17:17         ` Thompson, David
2016-01-19 22:02           ` Leo Famulari
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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