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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> Handle what?
>
> Handle this situation.  But I guess it's not needed because noone should
> normally have '/homeless-shelter'.
>
> I was testing a package from its build directory and forgot to unset
> some variables ($HOME, for instance).

Ah, so this was not the log of a chroot build, right?  (There=E2=80=99s no
/homeless-shelter directory in the chroot.)

>> What was the error message exactly?
>
> guix build: error: build failed: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists;
> please remove it

Perfect, then.  :-)

>> unless running as root.
>
> Well, my understanding is that it shouldn't be harmful (under normal
> circumstances) for the main system.  But it's not smart because you
> could affect the chroot itself, which is not desirable anyway.  So, I'm
> going to use '--userspec' from now on.

Not sure what --userspec is.

Anyway, in general, it=E2=80=99s a bad idea to do =E2=80=9Cnormal things=E2=
=80=9D as root,
because it=E2=80=99s easy to inadvertently break the system one way or anot=
her.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.