On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:29:02PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > 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).
Hmmm. I don't understand. I would think it the other way round: the guix package you install is newer than the running daemon. But, no matter. Maybe we should just accentuate that guix gets its own independent profile. That I can understand ;). So it should *never* be in the user profile. Not even by accident. Pj.
