Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes: > You are correct, however, that building from source and running “make > install” *will* install Guix to the specified prefix. What I’m pretty > sure does *not* happen, though, is that this *overwrites* any files that > Ubuntu (or any other system) uses. It is well-behaved in that it > installs things into the expected directories under the given prefix.
It does put everything into the correct directories, but that doesn't prevent version conflicts with my Ubuntu installation. If I remember correctly it was the locale definitions that were not compatible. > (With the “pre-inst-env” script it’s possible to run Guix without > installing it, so you don’t even have to run “make install” at all if > you just want to bootstrap Guix.) That's a useful suggestion, thanks! All I want to do is develop my own package definitions, and eventually contribute them to the official distribution. All I need is a way to run Guix-from-source under my user account. Konrad.
