From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Steffen Rytter Postas <nc@scalehost.eu>
Cc: 42810@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42810: Guix doesn't follow all symlinks
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:01:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ3HuukJCN2NT7+2D1=69ew91DVJUN_EexPk3COQs_A39A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6b2f0f978316b0296607c52460786f21c3d979c.camel@scalehost.eu>
Dear,
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:24, Steffen Rytter Postas <nc@scalehost.eu> wrote:
> Why does the concept of installing applications as root not apply?
Because one of the Guix aims is to be "root-less". Each user is doing
whatever they wants in their $HOME directory.
On foreign distro, the only role of the sysadmin (root) is to update the daemon.
> While I am aware that all applications are installed in the /gnu/store,
> this does not imply that there are different application needs between
> the root user and a normal user.
I am not sure to understand what it means.
> So rather than being a bug in Guix itself, it's a bug in the
> installation script that does not setup the host distribution for being
> able to process the correct location then, no?
What do you mean by "correct location"?
You could be interested by these tutorial videos:
< https://guix.gnu.org/videos/>
> Or if it's because the user of Guix on a foreign distribution needs to
> setup more for the use case of adding channels to work, when running
> only one version of guix on the system, then it would be missing
> documentation.
I am sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
> While I don't have a say in this, I also do not mind changing this from
> a bug of guix to an issue somewhere else, but where would it be? Or is
> the casual user of guix that elects to simply add a channel simply left
> to their own devices on undocumented behaviour?
Again, I am sorry too because I miss what you mean.
Maybe you could send your comments on the mailing list
<help-guix@gnu.org> and others will have better wordings than mine.
:-)
All the best,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-11 13:54 bug#42810: Guix doesn't follow all symlinks Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-15 23:02 ` zimoun
2020-09-16 6:45 ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16 7:26 ` zimoun
2020-09-16 7:35 ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16 9:33 ` zimoun
2020-09-16 10:24 ` Steffen Rytter Postas via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-09-16 11:01 ` zimoun [this message]
2021-07-05 9:35 ` zimoun
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