Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-07 19:14 +0300) wrote: > >> Thomas Schwinge <tho...@codesourcery.com> 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)
Done in 5dc4296. >>> 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. Done in 7acd343. Thanks! Ludo’.
