Re: Updating guix for root

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Konrad,

> However, the systemd service still launches the daemon from 
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon. So if I
> uninstall the package "guix" for the root account (see
> https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg09793.html), I will
> probably remove the guix-daemon that is used on system startup.

You are right that this is a problem.  Our instructions for the binary
installation method say that this binary method works because it comes
with a pre-populated profile for the root user.

I believe we should revise these instructions, so that they take into
account the new behaviour of “guix pull”.

What do others think?

-- 
Ricardo