Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> writes: >> The manual says (see: (guix) Binary Installation): >> >> 3. Make ‘root’’s profile available under ‘~/.guix-profile’: >> >> # ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile \ >> ~root/.guix-profile > > I think the manual is wrong here. This only makes sense if the user is > 'root'. Otherwise, the user would expect Guix to be installed in their > home, not in root's home.
Step 2 says “As root, run: […]”. “~root” resolves to “/root”, not to “$HOME/root”, so it even works when run as a regular user. The manual seems correct to me and this is what the script aims to implement. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
