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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 14:32:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200523183242.GA2523@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200523160602.4961dd52@riseup.net>

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 04:06:02PM +0200, raingloom wrote:
> This should probably be clarified better in the docs, because I
> installed Guix on top of Ubuntu recently and even though I've set it up
> correctly once on Arch, it was rather confusing to me why I was getting
> that message.
> I think the frequency with which people ask about it is enough proof
> that the docs don't cover properly all the issues that beginners face.

Yup! It's been a pain point for a long time, and we've been slowly
chipping away at it.

We started discussing it here recently:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-03/msg00260.html

Maybe you have some ideas?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 15:17 GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-19 15:46 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-23 14:06   ` raingloom
2020-05-23 18:32     ` Leo Famulari [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-20  6:03 Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-05-20 11:02 ` zimoun

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