Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skrev: (18 januari 2019 21:29:28 CET)

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:03:18 +0000
Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org> wrote:

 To be clear, it's not so much a real problem as an eyesore. 'sudo guix
 package ...' and 'sudo guix pull' will operate on root's profile(s) as
 expected, but that also means 'sudo guix system reconfigure' will look at
 root's profile when deciding whether to say that it's out of date, even
 though the guix actually used for reconfiguring may not be out of date. It
 pretty much only ever comes up when reconfiguring, but for those like
 myself who are worried by messages like that it can be confusing to try to
 resolve.

There's an environment variable "SUDO_USER" which still contains the name
of the original user.

We could check SUDO_USER instead of USER if USER=root, otherwise check USER.