On Sun, 2025-03-23 at 10:04 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > At some point years ago the standard advice switched from "sudo -E > guix > system reconfigure ..." to "sudo guix system reconfigure ..." but > maybe > somewhere a regression was introduced, or it was subtle enough that > nobody noticed? I only noticed recently running on some diskspace > constrained systems...
I searched the history of the documentation and then the repository for mentioning of "sudo -E guix …" But it seems that the recommendation has not made it into the documentation in the first place ever since the repository started, which is some time in 2012. $ git log -p -- doc/ | grep -F "sudo -E guix" $ git log -p | grep -F "sudo -E guix" When I started using guix, I just followed the documentation. Maybe, the documentation should be updated? It is probably not only wasted space but also resources and time to create a duplicate of the checkout, which the user has. $ sudo du -sh /root/ 865M /root/ $ sudo du -sh /root/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj 7apsnalwq 865M /root/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywm isyr27shj7apsnalwq $ du -sh .cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsna lwq/ 700M .cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27 shj7apsnalwq/ Is this expected? Why would the same checkout be different? The size is different. The files also differ. Roman
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