Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> “guix pull” updates its own profile only. It updates >> ~/.config/guix/current, so you need to use Guix from >> ~/.config/guix/current/bin. > > And it says so after guix pull. It is easy to forget however. > > Why don't we (also) add it to the default guix profile? To most users > this would make sense. No point in running guix pull if you don't want > to update guix itself - right? It does update Guix itself. The “guix” package, however, should generally not be installed into a user profile, because it is always necessarily *older* than the version of Guix that you are using to install it (unless you’re using “--with-source” to use a more recent tarball). -- Ricardo
