On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:45:12PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:34 AM, carl hansen < > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that is the case, there is no mystery, there is indeed a > > > > > /root/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > > and there is NOT a > > > > > ~user/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > > > > > > > > > snip snip > > > > Ok I did, as suggested, > > guix package -i guix > > which I was afraid of, fearing some ouroboros strange loop destruction of > > the universe; > > fears unfounded, only curious effect was dozens or hundreds of > > > > warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59v ... > > warning: arbitrarily choosing /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59vkad1z... > > > > type messages. Otherwise, seems to work. > > That's not optimal. Those messages mean that of the store directories > linked to from your profile, more than one provide a given path. > > For example, GNU Parallel and moreutils both have a path "bin/parallel": > /gnu/store/7ggbvsql79s5i05a3v8cbn48kdrzf7nc-parallel-20151222/bin/parallel > /gnu/store/ax4ppgzmx5cjqr813l3djgzhiniam1yz-moreutils-0.57/bin/parallel > > If you install both in your profile, those two paths both become: > ~/.guix-profile/bin/parallel > > And so you get a warning and the conflict is resolved arbitrarily. You > can't have both of the "parallels" in your profile at once. > > Were the conflicting paths related to Guix? > > I don't have the lines anymore, I think they are related to lots of packages beside guix. As I learn, then I will know more; for now I will ignore ignorable messages from my computer, and move on.
