On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 03:56:07PM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Am 27.12.19 um 14:29 schrieb Todor Kondić:
> 
> > Given the user-centric approach of Guix, it feels like it should be up to individual users of a shared system to deal with installations and the system updates. But, what to do when they are lazy, or too novice for fiddling with the command line?
> > 
> > Do I use the admin's prerogative and set their own crontabs to pull and "package -u" once in a while? I feel like this is overriding their free will for their own good.
> > 
> > Note that the question is ethical, as much as technical :)
> 
> Ask your users what they prefer. I'd want to handle this myself, but many of
> my colleagues would prefer an admin to take care of all updating. We are all
> different :-)
> 

Also note the difference in outputs beween 'guix package
--list-profiles' and 'sudo guix package --list-profiles'

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