On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:45:12PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > > >
> > >
> >
> > snip snip
> >
> > Ok I did, as suggested,
> > guix package -i guix
> > which I was afraid of, fearing some ouroboros strange loop destruction of
> > the universe;
> > fears unfounded, only curious effect was dozens or hundreds of
> >
> > warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59v ...
> > warning: arbitrarily choosing /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59vkad1z...
> >
> > type messages. Otherwise, seems to work.
>
> That's not optimal. Those messages mean that of the store directories
> linked to from your profile, more than one provide a given path.
>
> For example, GNU Parallel and moreutils both have a path "bin/parallel":
> /gnu/store/7ggbvsql79s5i05a3v8cbn48kdrzf7nc-parallel-20151222/bin/parallel
> /gnu/store/ax4ppgzmx5cjqr813l3djgzhiniam1yz-moreutils-0.57/bin/parallel
>
> If you install both in your profile, those two paths both become:
> ~/.guix-profile/bin/parallel
>
> And so you get a warning and the conflict is resolved arbitrarily. You
> can't have both of the "parallels" in your profile at once.
>
> Were the conflicting paths related to Guix?
>
> I don't have the lines anymore, I think they are related to lots of
packages beside guix.
As I learn, then I will know more; for now I will ignore ignorable messages
from my
computer, and move on.