Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes: > Clément Lassieur <[email protected]> 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.
But ~/.guix-profile may resolve to /home/user/.guix-profile. So it should be ~root/.guix-profile instead of ~/.guix-profile.
