> Handle what? Handle this situation. But I guess it's not needed because noone should normally have '/homeless-shelter'. I was testing a package from its build directory and forgot to unset some variables ($HOME, for instance). > What was the error message exactly? guix build: error: build failed: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it > unless running as root. Well, my understanding is that it shouldn't be harmful (under normal circumstances) for the main system. But it's not smart because you could affect the chroot itself, which is not desirable anyway. So, I'm going to use '--userspec' from now on. Thanks for the heads up.