Re: Guix binary tarball

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-07 19:14 +0300) wrote:

> Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I'm not a fan of extracting tarballs inside populated directories; so I'm
>> in favor on the suggested change to extract inside a temporary directory,
>> and then move everything in place as a separate step.
>
> OK.  I had come to the conclusion that yes, doing it in two steps is
> reasonable, but it’s the user’s choice, and I wondered whether
> describing the additional steps in the manual would make things look
> more complicated than they are.  WDYT?

I agree with Thomas.  I believe it would be better to split this step.
(OTOH a user who installs Guix should probably know what to do with a
tarball without additional documentation)

[...]
>> It's very common, but I don't think there's a hard requirement for the
>> root user's home directory to be /root.  Maybe instead of shipping it in
>> the tarball, the symbolic link should be created by an explicit command?
>>
>>     $ sudo ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile 
>> ~root/.guix-profile
>
> Yes, why not.  What do people think?

I totally agree, I think there is no need to put "/root" into the
tarball, and to add this step instead.

-- 
Alex