Most desktop users have single unix account and are also in control of root. These users might not want to differentiate between the current guix version of root and their normal user. They might also not want to differentiate between the packages available to root and the normal user. As such I would propose the following two improvements:
- Allow a system-wide guix installation that's updated with a special variant of 'guix pull' executed by root - Allow direct addition of packages to the system profile to obviate the need of running a full 'guix system reconfigure' after adding packages to the system configuration (The latter might show a reminder that if the package isn't also added to the system config, it will be removed again on the next system reconfiguration.) Currently I use a hack to imitate #1 where I have a unix account called 'guix-user' with which I run 'guix pull', and both root and my normal user have symlinks to that user's current guix. For #2 I don't have a workaround; I just re-run 'guix system reconfigure' every time. What do others think? - Taylan