Hey :) On Tue 14 Mar 2017 14:42, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> If we remove /var/guix/profiles, users will have to actually type > /gnu/store/asasdfadfgsadfa-profile/bin/guile. This is not great, but I > don’t know what else could be done. We could profile a > /bin/guile → /gnu/store/asasdfadfgsadfa-profile/bin/guile symlink, but > perhaps that’s risky too. As we were discussing in the channel, maybe it's OK for these binary installs to claim "/opt/gnu". Then we expose the profile in /opt/gnu, so you would run Guile as /opt/gnu/bin/guile. Additionally you could actually build against that Guile, which would be pretty neat. If the user untars multiple guix packs, /gnu/store easily absorbs the union, and /opt/gnu will adjoin any new profile directories/files and replace any overwritten links. We would have to make sure the union directory in /opt/gnu has all real directories and only symlink files, as per the recent patch on guix-devel. Andy
