Re: New ‘guix pull’

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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).

--
Ricardo