On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:03:18 +0000 Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristv...@cune.org> wrote:
> To be clear, it's not so much a real problem as an eyesore. 'sudo guix > package ...' and 'sudo guix pull' will operate on root's profile(s) as > expected, but that also means 'sudo guix system reconfigure' will look at > root's profile when deciding whether to say that it's out of date, even > though the guix actually used for reconfiguring may not be out of date. It > pretty much only ever comes up when reconfiguring, but for those like > myself who are worried by messages like that it can be confusing to try to > resolve. There's an environment variable "SUDO_USER" which still contains the name of the original user. We could check SUDO_USER instead of USER if USER=root, otherwise check USER.
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