Re: Do you guix pull for the root account on a single user machine running Guix System if the root user is never used?

[Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>]

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Oleander!

>> I know that root is not required to run guix pull and and sudo guix
>> system reconfigure. Is it also not necessary to update the root
>> definitions on Guix System?
> 
> That's correct. It's not necessary to keep guix definitions updated in 
> `root` profile, on single-user machine where the regular user has 
> superuser privileges. This is because, when you system reconfigure as 
> regular user using sudo, the guix in regular user's profile is used and 
> not the guix in root's profile.
> 
> The only scenario I could think of - where you gotta keep guix in root's 
> profile updated is - on multi-user machine where no regular user has 
> superuser privileges and the system administration is done via root. But 
> even in that scenario, I think it's a better practice to create a 
> regular user with superuser privileges for an admin to perform system 
> administration using sudo.

Forgot to mention something. You can test it yourself by doing `which 
guix` and `sudo which guix` AND/OR `guix -V` and `sudo guix -V`. The 
output of them will be same because the root profile isn't used.

Regards,
Raghav "RG" Gururajan.


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