From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: Tatiana Sholokhova <tanja201396@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, 30728@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30728: Modification for guix installation script.
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:24:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7urwap2.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMSS15DgqNa3j7OA1=brmomBnqG40xi6CK1G_pXgAZACozteaA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Tatiana,
Tatiana Sholokhova <tanja201396@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello!
>
>
> Could you please make that change on top of the current version of the
> Guix sources as a git commit? Then you can run “git format-patch -1” to
> format it as a patch in a format that we can apply. You can send the
> resulting patch file as an attachment to a reply to this email.
> This also fixes bug #30728, so please add this line to the commit
> message:
> --
> Ricardo
>
>
> I have attached the patch file to this email. This patch fixes the installation
> process but it placeguixwithin root's directory.
>
>
> I personally prefer that the Guix daemon points to my home directory
> because I don't want to update root's profile. Some other people might
> prefer that it points to ~root because they might later delete their
> profile and want Guix to keep working.
>
>
> Do we have to take a decision here? Can't we just let the user decide
> by letting them customize their environment variables? I think it is
> the point of environment variables: giving freedom to users.
>
>
> We can further work on the script's flexibility using the environment variable
> solution.
Thank you for your patch. The one Chris did has been pushed, but if you
want, you can still work on improving the script's flexibility. I still
haven't seen any valid argument for or against it, though, so I don't
know if it's a good idea. Maybe we can wait until someone says
something about it!
Clément
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-29 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-24 9:04 Modification for guix installation script Tatiana Sholokhova
2018-03-24 16:46 ` Vincent Legoll
2018-03-24 17:00 ` Tatiana Sholokhova
2018-03-24 17:05 ` Vincent Legoll
2018-03-24 21:26 ` Tatiana Sholokhova
2018-03-25 15:26 ` bug#30728: " Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-25 18:57 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-03-25 18:57 ` bug#30728: " Mark H Weaver
2018-03-26 8:27 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26 8:27 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26 9:11 ` bug#30728: " Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-26 12:59 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26 12:59 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26 16:09 ` Tatiana Sholokhova
2018-03-29 8:24 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-03-26 16:09 ` Tatiana Sholokhova
2018-03-27 11:53 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-29 8:11 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29 8:11 ` bug#30728: " Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 11:53 ` Gábor Boskovits
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