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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Updating guix for root
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:25:06 +0200
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Hi Konrad,

> However, the systemd service still launches the daemon from=20
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon. So if I
> uninstall the package "guix" for the root account (see
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-guix@gnu.org/msg09793.html), I will
> probably remove the guix-daemon that is used on system startup.

You are right that this is a problem.  Our instructions for the binary
installation method say that this binary method works because it comes
with a pre-populated profile for the root user.

I believe we should revise these instructions, so that they take into
account the new behaviour of =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D.

What do others think?

--=20
Ricardo