Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-08 Thread Taylan Kammer
Clément Lassieur writes: > Hi Taylan, > > You don't need to use the root account at all. > > Taylan Kammer writes: > >> 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 th

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Clément Lassieur skribis: > You can use you current user's guix installation for all commands that > need root's permissions with 'sudo -E', so you can consider that your > current user's guix account is the system-wide guix account. > > For example, 'sudo -E guix system reconfigure confi

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Clément, > >> You don't need to use the root account at all. > > One wrinkle is that the binary installation method installs Guix for the > root user and takes the guix-daemon from there. Taylan was talking about 'reconfiguring' and thus, I think, about

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Clément, > You don't need to use the root account at all. One wrinkle is that the binary installation method installs Guix for the root user and takes the guix-daemon from there. -- Ricardo

Re: Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-03 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi Taylan, You don't need to use the root account at all. Taylan Kammer writes: > 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 w

Better support for single-user systems

2018-12-02 Thread Taylan Kammer
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