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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Steffen Rytter Postas <nc@scalehost.eu>
Cc: 42810@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42810: Guix doesn't follow all symlinks
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:01:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ3HuukJCN2NT7+2D1=69ew91DVJUN_EexPk3COQs_A39A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6b2f0f978316b0296607c52460786f21c3d979c.camel@scalehost.eu>

Dear,

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:24, Steffen Rytter Postas <nc@scalehost.eu> wrote:

> Why does the concept of installing applications as root not apply?

Because one of the Guix aims is to be "root-less".  Each user is doing
whatever they wants in their $HOME directory.
On foreign distro, the only role of the sysadmin (root) is to update the daemon.

> While I am aware that all applications are installed in the /gnu/store,
> this does not imply that there are different application needs between
> the root user and a normal user.

I am not sure to understand what it means.


> So rather than being a bug in Guix itself, it's a bug in the
> installation script that does not setup the host distribution for being
> able to process the correct location then, no?

What do you mean by "correct location"?

You could be interested by these tutorial videos:

   < https://guix.gnu.org/videos/>


> Or if it's because the user of Guix on a foreign distribution needs to
> setup more for the use case of adding channels to work, when running
> only one version of guix on the system, then it would be missing
> documentation.

I am sorry, I do not understand what you mean.

> While I don't have a say in this, I also do not mind changing this from
> a bug of guix to an issue somewhere else, but where would it be? Or is
> the casual user of guix that elects to simply add a channel simply left
> to their own devices on undocumented behaviour?

Again, I am sorry too because I miss what you mean.


Maybe you could send your comments on the mailing list
<help-guix@gnu.org> and others will have better wordings than mine.
:-)

All the best,
simon




  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-11 13:54 bug#42810: Guix doesn't follow all symlinks Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-15 23:02 ` zimoun
2020-09-16  6:45   ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16  7:26     ` zimoun
2020-09-16  7:35       ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16  9:33         ` zimoun
2020-09-16 10:24           ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16 11:01             ` zimoun [this message]
2021-07-05  9:35 ` zimoun

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