From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: aegis: New variable. Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:50:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87k3789m1c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1405518437-24315-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87r41kdo87.fsf@gnu.org> <20140717160528.GB3678@intra> <874myfd1b5.fsf@gnu.org> <20140718043536.GA25423@jocasta.intra> <87silyltxd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140720071859.GA13707@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8rVo-0000H7-Op for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:50:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8rVi-0004YU-La for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:50:48 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:35532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8rVi-0004YP-EW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:50:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140720071859.GA13707@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:18:59 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington skribis: > Arguably this is deficiency of aegis itself. That=E2=80=99s what I would say. After all, software is usually installabl= e as non-root, so when that doesn=E2=80=99t work, it should at least fail gracef= ully. Ludo=E2=80=99.