Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > I think we should do that only when GUIX_LOCPATH is unset, but yes, this > is a good idea. > > I’m not sure how to implement it exactly; it seems cumbersome to ask > users to write such a script. Thoughts?
I think such a script should come with the tarball, and the manual should direct users to copy it into place instead of making a symlink. > Maybe the binary tarball should provide a short, readable ‘install.sh’ > script that would do everything the “Binary Installation” section > describes, including this extra step? This would be nice. But I would caution against a script eventually becoming the primary means of installation of Guix on foreign distros. If that happens, eventually I think the documentation will become out of date and manual installation will become much harder. Maybe that section of the documentation could be written in a literate programming style which can be used to generate the install.sh? That would be a nice way to keep both the documentation and the install.sh in sync and up to date with changes.
