Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > 2018-03-26 11:11 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>: > >> >> Hi Clément, >> >> > As I said to Chris (Cc'ed), I don't think it's a good idea to install >> > Guix in root's home directory. Instead, we should probably honor the >> > USER and HOME environment variables, so that the command can be run as a >> > non-root user (with sudo) in a consistent way. What do you think? >> >> The script should be run as root as it follows the manual’s >> instructions, which tell people to install Guix for the root user and >> then make it available system-wide. >> >> This is why I think that it would be correct to install it to the root’s >> home directory and not to the sudoing user’s HOME. >> >> Or am I missing something? >> >> > I think Ricardo is right on this one. I would also recommend installing in > root's home directory.
But you don't explain why. And "as it follows the manual's instructions" isn't a good reason to me. > I believe, that installing in a user home would make sense only with a > big amount of additional instrumentation and documentation changes, > along with arrangements to allow guix in userspace. I think it would be fairly easy. The kind of edit we do all the time when patches are being reviewed.
