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Re: Guix binary tarball
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Alex Kost |
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Re: Guix binary tarball |
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Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:34:21 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-07 19:14 +0300) wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I'm not a fan of extracting tarballs inside populated directories; so I'm
>> in favor on the suggested change to extract inside a temporary directory,
>> and then move everything in place as a separate step.
>
> OK. I had come to the conclusion that yes, doing it in two steps is
> reasonable, but it’s the user’s choice, and I wondered whether
> describing the additional steps in the manual would make things look
> more complicated than they are. WDYT?
I agree with Thomas. I believe it would be better to split this step.
(OTOH a user who installs Guix should probably know what to do with a
tarball without additional documentation)
[...]
>> It's very common, but I don't think there's a hard requirement for the
>> root user's home directory to be /root. Maybe instead of shipping it in
>> the tarball, the symbolic link should be created by an explicit command?
>>
>> $ sudo ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile
>> ~root/.guix-profile
>
> Yes, why not. What do people think?
I totally agree, I think there is no need to put "/root" into the
tarball, and to add this step instead.
--
Alex