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Re: New ‘guix pull’
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: New ‘guix pull’ |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:44:56 +0200 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:29:02PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> “guix pull” updates its own profile only. It updates
> >> ~/.config/guix/current, so you need to use Guix from
> >> ~/.config/guix/current/bin.
> >
> > And it says so after guix pull. It is easy to forget however.
> >
> > Why don't we (also) add it to the default guix profile? To most users
> > this would make sense. No point in running guix pull if you don't want
> > to update guix itself - right?
>
> It does update Guix itself. The “guix” package, however, should
> generally not be installed into a user profile, because it is always
> necessarily *older* than the version of Guix that you are using to
> install it (unless you’re using “--with-source” to use a more recent
> tarball).
Hmmm. I don't understand. I would think it the other way round: the
guix package you install is newer than the running daemon. But, no
matter. Maybe we should just accentuate that guix gets its own independent
profile. That I can understand ;). So it should *never* be in the user
profile. Not even by accident.
Pj.
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- Re: New ‘guix pull’,
Pjotr Prins <=
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
- Re: New ‘guix pull’, Pjotr Prins, 2018/07/13
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