Dear, On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:24, Steffen Rytter Postas <n...@scalehost.eu> wrote:
> Why does the concept of installing applications as root not apply? Because one of the Guix aims is to be "root-less". Each user is doing whatever they wants in their $HOME directory. On foreign distro, the only role of the sysadmin (root) is to update the daemon. > While I am aware that all applications are installed in the /gnu/store, > this does not imply that there are different application needs between > the root user and a normal user. I am not sure to understand what it means. > So rather than being a bug in Guix itself, it's a bug in the > installation script that does not setup the host distribution for being > able to process the correct location then, no? What do you mean by "correct location"? You could be interested by these tutorial videos: < https://guix.gnu.org/videos/> > Or if it's because the user of Guix on a foreign distribution needs to > setup more for the use case of adding channels to work, when running > only one version of guix on the system, then it would be missing > documentation. I am sorry, I do not understand what you mean. > While I don't have a say in this, I also do not mind changing this from > a bug of guix to an issue somewhere else, but where would it be? Or is > the casual user of guix that elects to simply add a channel simply left > to their own devices on undocumented behaviour? Again, I am sorry too because I miss what you mean. Maybe you could send your comments on the mailing list <help-g...@gnu.org> and others will have better wordings than mine. :-) All the best, simon
