From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Subject: Re: Better support for single-user systems Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:58:24 +0100 Message-ID: <874lbueedr.fsf@lassieur.org> References: <87in0cghoo.fsf@gmail.com> <878t17djn4.fsf@lassieur.org> <875zwaionj.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTrYE-0007di-Tb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:58:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTrYB-0008Dr-Mo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:58:30 -0500 Received: from mail.lassieur.org ([83.152.10.219]:60808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTrYB-0008CA-CT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:58:27 -0500 In-reply-to: <875zwaionj.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Cl=C3=A9ment, > >> You don't need to use the root account at all.=20 > > One wrinkle is that the binary installation method installs Guix for the > root user and takes the guix-daemon from there. Taylan was talking about 'reconfiguring' and thus, I think, about GuixSD. GuixSD's guix-daemon is updated on reconfigure, not from the root account. (For the foreign distro installation, an extra step is needed indeed: one needs to get /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service to point to the user's Guix current profile so to remove the need for the Guix of root.) Cl=C3=A9ment