From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: 22607@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22607: doc install from *Guix Package Info: profile* fails
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:55:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3g4y0yr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh6s6fee.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:14:33 +0300")
Alex Kost (2016-02-10 13:14 +0300) wrote:
> myglc2 (2016-02-10 03:58 +0300) wrote:
>
[...]
>> Also, just to be clear, I was not trying to install the curses.6 doc
>> globally. I was trying to install it locally as 1) user, and when that
>> failed as 2) root.
>
> Now I understand your intention, but in fact you tried to install it to
> a system profile both times.
>
> After all I see why you were confused. Emacs interface has always been
> aimed only for a user profile. "M-x guix-system-generations" was added
> very recently just to show what systems you have and what global
> packages they contain, and by accident you can perform the same actions on
> these system packages as with user profile.
>
> I'm going to remove this false possibility (I mean, a user shouldn't get
> a chance to install anything to a system profile) to avoid future
> confusions.
Done in commit 260795b.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 16:49 bug#22607: doc install from *Guix Package Info: profile* fails myglc2
2016-02-09 18:47 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-10 0:58 ` myglc2
2016-02-10 10:14 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-10 18:36 ` myglc2
2016-02-22 19:55 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-02-10 13:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10 18:46 ` myglc2
2016-02-10 13:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
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