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Subject: Re: Updating guix for root
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:32:29 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

>> However, the systemd service still launches the daemon from=20
>> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon. So if I
>> uninstall the package "guix" for the root account (see
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-guix@gnu.org/msg09793.html), I will
>> probably remove the guix-daemon that is used on system startup.
>
> You are right that this is a problem.  Our instructions for the binary
> installation method say that this binary method works because it comes
> with a pre-populated profile for the root user.
>
> I believe we should revise these instructions, so that they take into
> account the new behaviour of =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D.

Perhaps we could somehow provide a profile that would have to be linked
to ~/.config/guix/current?

The ~root/.guix-profile that comes with the binary tarball has the
advantage of providing =E2=80=98glibc-utf8-locales=E2=80=99 and the corresp=
onding
=E2=80=98GUIX_LOCPATH=E2=80=99.  It would be nice to keep it somehow.

That requires some thought=E2=80=A6

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.