Chris Marusich <[email protected]> writes: > Clément Lassieur <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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. > > Ah, I think I now see the cause of our miscommunication. > > It's possible to interpret the manual's use of ~ and $HOME to mean "the > unprivileged user's home directory", instead of "root's home directory". > I think that's a mistake in the manual, since the "ln" clearly makes > root's profile available under root's home directory, and the step > involving $HOME doesn't make sense unless $HOME expands to root's home > directory. > > I've updated my patch; it now also changes the following line... > > 3. Make ‘root’’s profile available under ‘~/.guix-profile’: > > ...to this: > > 3. Make ‘root’’s profile available under ‘~root/.guix-profile’: > > How does that sound?
This fixes the documentation inconsistency, but I still think Guix shouldn't be installed in ~root (as I explain there: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30728#32).
