Hi, Göktuğ Kayaalp <[email protected]> skribis:
> I have recently reported a weird issue with X11 here, and am now > retrying to install GuixSD on that same machine on which I had the > issue. Now another trouble that I encounter during the installation is > that the shadow package is no installed on my machine, and thus I don't > have access to the ‘passwd’ command in order to set a root password and > proceed w/ installation thru ssh. Is this a deliberate choice to leave > out this package from the installation media or a bug? It's not that > important as I'm installing shadow via ‘guix package -i’ ATM but it > takes time (compiles stuff) unnecessarily. I think the rationale was that you don’t need ‘useradd’ & co. on GuixSD, but you definitely need ‘passwd’ so I agree that we should add it. Done: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=c0f5eee4b2cc737be222c4ba331d0c6373d565eb Thanks, Ludo’.
