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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:34:21 +0300
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Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2015-06-07 19:14 +0300) wrote:

> Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> skribis:
>
>> I'm not a fan of extracting tarballs inside populated directories; so I'm
>> in favor on the suggested change to extract inside a temporary directory,
>> and then move everything in place as a separate step.
>
> OK.  I had come to the conclusion that yes, doing it in two steps is
> reasonable, but it=E2=80=99s the user=E2=80=99s choice, and I wondered wh=
ether
> describing the additional steps in the manual would make things look
> more complicated than they are.  WDYT?

I agree with Thomas.  I believe it would be better to split this step.
(OTOH a user who installs Guix should probably know what to do with a
tarball without additional documentation)

[...]
>> It's very common, but I don't think there's a hard requirement for the
>> root user's home directory to be /root.  Maybe instead of shipping it in
>> the tarball, the symbolic link should be created by an explicit command?
>>
>>     $ sudo ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile ~root/.g=
uix-profile
>
> Yes, why not.  What do people think?

I totally agree, I think there is no need to put "/root" into the
tarball, and to add this step instead.

--=20
Alex