Re: Do you guix pull for the root account on a single user machine running Guix System if the root user is never used?

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hi Oleander!

> I know that root is not required to run guix pull and and sudo guix
> system reconfigure. Is it also not necessary to update the root
> definitions on Guix System?

That's correct. It's not necessary to keep guix definitions updated in 
`root` profile, on single-user machine where the regular user has 
superuser privileges. This is because, when you system reconfigure as 
regular user using sudo, the guix in regular user's profile is used and 
not the guix in root's profile.

The only scenario I could think of - where you gotta keep guix in root's 
profile updated is - on multi-user machine where no regular user has 
superuser privileges and the system administration is done via root. But 
even in that scenario, I think it's a better practice to create a 
regular user with superuser privileges for an admin to perform system 
administration using sudo.

Regards,
Raghav "RG" Gururajan.

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