Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skrev: (18 januari 2019 21:29:28 CET)
>On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:03:18 +0000
>Caleb Ristvedt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> To be clear, it's not so much a real problem as an eyesore. 'sudo
>guix
>> package ...' and 'sudo guix pull' will operate on root's profile(s)
>as
>> expected, but that also means 'sudo guix system reconfigure' will
>look at
>> root's profile when deciding whether to say that it's out of date,
>even
>> though the guix actually used for reconfiguring may not be out of
>date. It
>> pretty much only ever comes up when reconfiguring, but for those like
>> myself who are worried by messages like that it can be confusing to
>try to
>> resolve.
>
>There's an environment variable "SUDO_USER" which still contains the
>name
>of the original user.
>
>We could check SUDO_USER instead of USER if USER=root, otherwise check
>USER.

+1 great idea.

Maybe we could have an explicit  --root switch too?
Then we could state in the manual that guix always runs with your user profile 
guix unless you give it  --root.

We could the clearly state why you might not want it to use a root profile of 
guix on a typical single user system. 
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