On 05/11/2018 17.33, Brian Woodcox wrote:
I then trying to install a package from the terminal. How about
icecat. So I issue the command to install that.
All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of
packages that were already installed as root.
There is a single system-wide store for derivations at /gnu/store. The
derivations are installed packages plus dependencies and removed
packages that haven't been garbage-collected, yet.
If a package is already in the store, installing it for a specific user
should only require symlinks to be added, as far as I understand. Unless
a dependency is missing.
For example, I have "gimp" in my profile, pointing to an item in the store:
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~: which gimp
/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp
~: ls -l /home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 64 Jan 1 1970
/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp ->
/gnu/store/wzp4ci2myckcg9qjqgm84rzv23snyz4d-gimp-2.10.6/bin/gimp
---
Thus it seems you misinterpreted some output (or there is a bug).
The results of guix working through the entire dependency chain for
build, installation and runtime of a package can be rather surprising.
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Thorsten Wilms
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