Re: Root guix dereferencing

["Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>]

Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> writes:

> On 19/11/2018 11.20, Clément Lassieur wrote:
>
>> This is because the result of running guix pull is a profile available
>> under ~/.config/guix/current containing the latest Guix[1].
>>
>> So you may need to make sure it is at the beginning of your search path.
>
> Thanks, but the plain user `guix pull` works fine and ~/.config/guix/current
> is up-to-date.

In case it's not clear, '~' refers to root's home as well.  'root' is
just a user.  You don't even have to use it at all.  (I personally never
use it.)

>> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pull.html
>
> I note that this page doesn't contain "sudo" at all and "root" only once, in
> "For instance, when user root runs guix pull, this has no effect on the
> version of Guix that user alice sees, and vice versa.".

It doesn't need to contain 'sudo' and 'root', because 'root' is just a
user, so everything works the same way.

Clément