Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 02:22:36PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: >> But, AIUI, this goes against the guix concept of an immutable store. >> To describe and name this function to imply that one could/should edit >> recipes in the store based on the "corner case" of root having the >> ultimable ability to do so seems counter to how you would want to >> encourage even a root user to proceed. > > Recipes are not in the store. For instance, after doing a "make install", > they are in $PREFIX/share/guile/site/2.0/. > > Or maybe they are in the store after a "guix pull"? > > I am only using the "make install" version for a system-wide installation, > and a git checkout for making more recent recipes available to one user. > > Andreas
On guixSD they are found under /root/.config/guix/latest which points, for example, into the store like this: latest -> /gnu/store/96s6sh92xyw0rljp3w1zxc8h3s4vb5zf-guix-latest So it seems to me that editing these files will essenctially "corrupt" a guix system.
