> When alice invokes the guix command to install the hello package, the > guix command essentially translates the package definition into a > derivation, and then asks the guix-daemon (via remote procedure calls) > to build that derivation.
> guix-daemon has no knowledge of the "package" abstraction, and it > doesn't need to know about packages. For this reason, the guix-daemon > doesn't necessarily need to be updated in order to build more > up-to-date packages. The guix-daemon just knows how to do basic > things related to the store like add files, build derivations, perform > garbage collection, etc. To summarize, `guix pull && guix package -u' on the root user is basically for the sake of the features to do basic things, when the root user's guix profile is only for the guix-daemon. Thanks for your precise explanation! All things are clear now. I'll give a link to this conversation if someone encounter and ask the same confusion. Your mail was that helpful. :) -- Attic Hermit
