Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andreas & Gottfried, On Tue, Feb 11 2025, Andreas Enge wrote: > I use "su" instead of "sudo" I also dislike sudo but don't need it because we have 'guix deploy'! Kind regards Felix

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Gottfried, Am Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:58:48AM + schrieb Gottfried: > I am the only user at my laptop. > So I upgraded my packages and did a sudo system reconfigure... > in my user profile only. this is perfectly fine, and probably what most people do. I use "su" instead of "sudo" just

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-11 Thread Gottfried
Hi Andreas, I am the only user at my laptop. So I upgraded my packages and did a sudo system reconfigure... in my user profile only. Is it better to both in root, so that the updating of packages and the system reconfigure is always in root instead of the users profile? What would be the adv

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:15:06AM + schrieb Laurence Rochfort: > Does guix pull also have separate states for each user and the system? only for each user. Then it depends which guix is used for reconfiguring the system: - Most people use "sudo" (with additional parameters I do not re

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-11 Thread Laurence Rochfort
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, 20:58 Andreas Enge, wrote: > Am Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:24:36PM -0800 schrieb Ian Eure: > > Guix doesn’t have a single package state shared by the whole system, like > > most traditional Linux distributions, it has different states depending > on > > context. When `guix pack

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:24:36PM -0800 schrieb Ian Eure: > Guix doesn’t have a single package state shared by the whole system, like > most traditional Linux distributions, it has different states depending on > context. When `guix package -u' said you were up-to-date, that was in the > context

Re: Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-10 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Laurence, Laurence Rochfort writes: Hello all, Relatively new guix system user. On a new install of guix system, I did a "guix pull && guix package -u". It said I was up-to-date. I then did a "guix system reconfigure", and that caused a download of 640Mb of substitutes. Could some

Downloads caused by guix package -u Vs guix system reconfigure

2025-02-10 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Hello all, Relatively new guix system user. On a new install of guix system, I did a "guix pull && guix package -u". It said I was up-to-date. I then did a "guix system reconfigure", and that caused a download of 640Mb of substitutes. Could somebody please help me understand why it prompted s