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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:29:02PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>=20
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>=20
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D updates its own profile only.  It update=
s
> >> ~/.config/guix/current, so you need to use Guix from
> >> ~/.config/guix/current/bin.
> >
> > And it says so after guix pull. It is easy to forget however.
> >
> > Why don't we (also) add it to the default guix profile? To most users
> > this would make sense. No point in running guix pull if you don't wan=
t
> > to update guix itself - right?
>=20
> It does update Guix itself.  The =E2=80=9Cguix=E2=80=9D package, howeve=
r, should
> generally not be installed into a user profile, because it is always
> necessarily *older* than the version of Guix that you are using to
> install it (unless you=E2=80=99re using =E2=80=9C--with-source=E2=80=9D=
 to use a more recent
> tarball).

Hmmm. I don't understand. I would think it the other way round: the
guix package you install is newer than the running daemon. But, no
matter. Maybe we should just accentuate that guix gets its own independen=
t
profile. That I can understand ;). So it should *never* be in the user
profile. Not even by accident.

Pj.