Hello, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
>> However, the systemd service still launches the daemon from >> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon. So if I >> uninstall the package "guix" for the root account (see >> https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-guix@gnu.org/msg09793.html), I will >> probably remove the guix-daemon that is used on system startup. > > You are right that this is a problem. Our instructions for the binary > installation method say that this binary method works because it comes > with a pre-populated profile for the root user. > > I believe we should revise these instructions, so that they take into > account the new behaviour of “guix pull”. Perhaps we could somehow provide a profile that would have to be linked to ~/.config/guix/current? The ~root/.guix-profile that comes with the binary tarball has the advantage of providing ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ and the corresponding ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’. It would be nice to keep it somehow. That requires some thought… Thanks, Ludo’.
