Hi Taylan, You don't need to use the root account at all.
Taylan Kammer <taylan.kam...@gmail.com> writes: > Most desktop users have single unix account and are also in control of > root. These users might not want to differentiate between the current > guix version of root and their normal user. They might also not want > to differentiate between the packages available to root and the normal > user. As such I would propose the following two improvements: > > - Allow a system-wide guix installation that's updated with a special > variant of 'guix pull' executed by root You can use you current user's guix installation for all commands that need root's permissions with 'sudo -E', so you can consider that your current user's guix account is the system-wide guix account. For example, 'sudo -E guix system reconfigure config.scm' updates the system with your user's guix. > - Allow direct addition of packages to the system profile to obviate > the need of running a full 'guix system reconfigure' after adding > packages to the system configuration You don't need this if you use your user's guix installation only. > (The latter might show a reminder that if the package isn't also added > to the system config, it will be removed again on the next system > reconfiguration.) > > Currently I use a hack to imitate #1 where I have a unix account > called 'guix-user' with which I run 'guix pull', and both root and my > normal user have symlinks to that user's current guix. For #2 I don't > have a workaround; I just re-run 'guix system reconfigure' every time. You definitely don't need this :-) Clément
